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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: kudos & need help w. floppy tape & ft Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 05:11:13 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 25 Message-ID: <33804361.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> References: <337FDA8B.1839@synet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: JD Thomlinson <jthom@synet.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41161 JD Thomlinson wrote: > Is there a raw device for floppy tape that mt will talk to? > Is it possible to build one? No, the /dev/ft0 device has to work in concert with the ft(8) command - the driver is written as a hybrid kernel/usermode thing. Evil, I know, and supposedly someone finally got sick enough of it that they're working on putting everything into the kernel. No ETA on this though. > short (and I mean brief) man page? I tried locating the > source for ft, and it doesn't seem to exist on any mirror. /usr/src/sbin/ft if you have the src distribution loaded. > Is there a suggested procedure for creating a boot/root > emergency disk set? If it's a hand-job ;-) with dd, any Just dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0 bs=18k for the first image (which you should still have from installation if you didn't blow it away) and do the same for the fixit.flp image on another floppy. Voila, you now have an emergency repair kit. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.