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From: rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ft : Operation not supported...
Date: 16 Jan 1995 01:10:57 GMT
Organization: The Trystero System
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Message-ID: <3fch31$cr6@sundog.tiac.net>
References: <3f26s9$qd7@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
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In article <3f26s9$qd7@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>,
Michael J Hill <hillm@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>I have been trying to get my qic 80 drive to work.  It is the one that is 
>attached to the floppy controller.  when I try :
>
>tar cvzf - /usr |ft "/usr save"  

Is this the way you create tar tapes?  It ain't
the way I do it, but then again, it wouldn't be
the first time somebody did it differently than
I do.

Here's how I do it:

	tar cvzf - /usr > /dev/(tapedrive)

Have you tried it that way?

Hmmm, I had a couple snags with my tape drive
(but it isn't QIC80, it's an Archive one that
can use the WT (wangtek) QIC02 drivers.

It works, but initially I had to screw around
a lot finding the right /dev/ interface to it
(there were a whole bunch for various formats
 within QIC80).

Sorry if that sounded like psychobabble, maybe
that'll provide a clue though.


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