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From: keng@aimnet.com (Ken Gaugler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Floppy tape device?
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 06:06:07 GMT
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The man pages talk about using ft as a filter to access the floppy
tape drive.  That works OK, but seems like I saw somewhere a way to
build a device like /dev/ft0, that would let the floppy tape be
accessed like any other tape device.

How is this done?

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Ken Gaugler  URL:http://users.aimnet.com/~keng/
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