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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news3.noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!not-for-mail From: jha@cs.purdue.edu (John H. Aughey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: QIC 40/80 tape drive mounting? Date: 1 Sep 1995 00:40:39 -0500 Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4266cn$gre@moriarty.cs.purdue.edu> References: <astuy.20.00161D3C@bio.fsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: moriarty.cs.purdue.edu In article <astuy.20.00161D3C@bio.fsu.edu>, Alexander Stuy <astuy@bio.fsu.edu> wrote: > I have FreeBSD 2.0.5 running on a 486-66. I recently added a Colorado >Jumbo 1400 which susposedly is QIC40/80. How do I tar to it? I suspose I >have to mount it first somehow. Excuse my ignorance, I have read all the man >pages I can think to look at with no results. Check out the man pages for ft(8). You'll want to make sure the floppy tape device is compiled into your kernel (I believe it is in the GENERIC kernels). Then to tar something up to the tape drive you type something like: tar xvzf - /usr | ft "/usr save" (from man pages) Going backwards is equally easy, "ft | tar -xvzf -" -John