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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [?] tape drives for FreeBSD Date: 24 May 1994 03:58:01 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 14 Message-ID: <JKH.94May24045801@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <2rp8u7$9lj@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM's message of 23 May 1994 03:46:15 GMT In article <2rp8u7$9lj@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM> smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui) writes: I was wondering how FreeBSD handles tape drives. I've heard the Linux ftape sucks and makes backups really hard to do. Any SCSI or standard floppy tape drive should work fine (including DAT and 8mm EXABYTE drives). Can you mount tapes and just use it virtually as a normal drive? I don't know what you mean by `mount it' - these aren't 1/2" tapes we're talking about here anymore! :-) Jordan