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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with tape backup Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:14:01 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4le8ep$f8r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31752B90.73EA@shoreland.com> <4l6e1t$1oj@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31797F55.1422@bcgi.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Clark B <clark@bcgi.com> writes: >Anyways..... the commands listed in the man page for ft STILL give the >device not configured error. IS there a FAQ somewhere?? Nope, but you need to: . configure your kernel for it (though the GENERIC kernel has the ft device in it), . make sure it's recognized and announced at boot time, . then use ft(8)... Are steps 1 and 2 okay for you? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)