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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!news From: gfm@werple.apana.org.au (Graham Menhennitt) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: getting a floppy tape working on FreeBSD 1.1R Date: 26 May 1994 18:05:41 +1000 Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2s1l8l$e9c@werple.apana.org.au> References: <2rp1ju$d7r@werple.apana.org.au> <JKH.94May24045556@nx.ilo.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Jordan Hubbard (jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com) wrote: : In article <2rp1ju$d7r@werple.apana.org.au> gfm@werple.apana.org.au (Graham Menhennitt) writes: : I have added the ft0 driver to the kernel. It recognises the tape at boot : but any attempt to access it hangs the process. I guess the driver is still : not really working. I have heard that it does work in -current. Can someone : I'm very surprised to hear this, since many folks have been using the : floppy tape driver with good success right up through 1.1Beta. In : freebsd-current, the only change I've made recently to the floppy tape : driver was to take over Steve's improvements to the error correction : code. A couple of people were kind enough to point me in the direction of the "ft" command. They both said that they only found it by luck/searching. I can't find any mention of it in any release notes. I was trying to do a "tar cvf /dev/rft0" where rft0 is character device 9,32. Now I can do things with the tape using "ft" I tried to backup my hard drive with "tar zcvf - [dirs] | ft". This appeared to start working and I left for work. When I came back about 10 hours later it was still going. It seemed to be going backwards and forwards over the same bit of tape. Anybody got any clues? Any more doco other than the ft man page. Thanks, Graham