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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!sci.kun.nl!not-for-mail From: jvissers@sci.kun.nl (Jos Vissers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems with tape drive Date: 6 Jan 1996 17:24:19 +0100 Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4cm7nj$po7@studs2.sci.kun.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: studs2.sci.kun.nl Keywords: floppy tape X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV) Goodmorning, I am switching from Linux to FreeBSD but would like to be able to use my floppy tape drive. So far not much luck. I Have a IOMega Ditto 420 (200 Mb uncompressed), which uses the QIC-Wide format but is QIC-40/80 compatible. My kernel config (relevant part) looks like: controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 flags 0x1 vector fdintr disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 #disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2 When I boot FreeBSD I get: ft0: IOMega tape so it is detected, fine. When I try to write to it using 'tar -cvf - <something> | ft -f /dev/ft0' I get : fdc0: output ready timeout fdc0: input ready timeout fdc0: input ready timeout It then starts writing (most of the time) but when a write error occurs, it goes back and forth over the same spot endlessly. I have to reboot to make it stop. Q1: Is there a solution (in the near future) ? Q2: Is there a way to read Linux tar tapes ? Q3: The manpage promises multiple archives but how is this done ? Thanks, Jos