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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive suggestions??? Date: 13 Jul 1996 11:06:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4s7vvp$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ru18i$mll@mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu> <DuC0y7.Asx@tigger.jvnc.net> <31E44224.41C6@ucdavis.edu> <4s49h4$cjt@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) wrote: > Is that why even though FreeBSD V2.05 MAKEDEV's *ft0 and recognizes > a Colorado 250Mb as ft0, but no tape or dump commands will work with > the device - "not configured" ?? Yep. The `ft' device nodes aren't normal tape devices, the only program that can handle them is ft(8). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)