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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!gossip.pyramid.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: getting a floppy tape working on FreeBSD 1.1R Date: 27 May 1994 11:07:46 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 27 Message-ID: <JKH.94May27120746@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <2rp1ju$d7r@werple.apana.org.au> <JKH.94May24045556@nx.ilo.dec.com> <2s1l8l$e9c@werple.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: gfm@werple.apana.org.au's message of 26 May 1994 18:05:41 +1000 In article <2s1l8l$e9c@werple.apana.org.au> gfm@werple.apana.org.au (Graham Menhennitt) writes: 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. Hmmm.. This doesn't sound like ideal documentation on our part (where would you have expected to see it mentioned, just out of curiousity?). I have just updated our FAQ entry to mention the ft command - thanks! 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. I think you've got a bad spot in your tape, and the previous incarnation of ft's error correction didn't handle this very well! Grab the latest error correction code (/usr/src/sbin/ft/ftecc.c) out of -current, drop it in, recompile ft and let me know how it works! This version will be in FreeBSD 1.1.5. Jordan