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From: gryphon@msgi.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Floppy tape config...
Date: 12 Jun 1995 12:01:36 -0400
Organization: MSG, Inc. (Burlington, MA)
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Sender: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@msgi.com>
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I notice that the kernel supports "ft0" which looks like a floppy
tape drive. Two questions.

Can this be a QIC-80 (a la Colorado Trakker) type tape drive?

The entry in the sys/i386/conf/GENERIC lists "ft0 at fdc0 drive 2".
I this correct regardless of how many floppy drives are on the
machine? In other words, if I just have a 3.5 and the tape, would
the tape be listed as "ft0 at fdc0 drive 1"?

Thanx for the info.

-coranth

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