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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!nntp.hybrid.com!usenet From: keng@hybrid.com (Ken Gaugler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Floppy tape device? Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 17:43:04 GMT Organization: Hybrid Networks, Inc. - Cable Modem Leaders Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4p9ma1$jb8@dracula.hybrid.com> References: <4om2a7$1j8@news.aimnet.com> <4ot16h$sv@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: keng-lap.hybrid.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >keng@aimnet.com (Ken Gaugler) wrote: >> The man pages talk about using ft as a filter to access the floppy >> tape drive. That works OK, but seems like I saw somewhere a way to >> build a device like /dev/ft0, that would let the floppy tape be >> accessed like any other tape device. >/dev/rft0 is there, of course, and that's where ft(8) (the floppy tape >filter) sits upon. >Nobody ever gots round to make ft(4) a regular tape driver. Several >people were about to start this task, but nobody finished. Call it >the ``Bermuda Triangle'' of FreeBSD. :) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's too bad. It would be so nice to be able to say dump 0f /dev/ft0 <filesystem> Oh well, maybe someday (HINT HINT) someone will get around to it.