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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!spring.edu.tw!voyager.iii.org.tw!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Floppy tape device? Date: 2 Jun 1996 21:30:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4ot16h$sv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4om2a7$1j8@news.aimnet.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 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E keng@aimnet.com (Ken Gaugler) wrote: > 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. /dev/rft0 is there, of course, and that's where ft(8) (the floppy tape filter) sits upon. Nobody ever gots round to make ft(4) a regular tape driver. Several people were about to start this task, but nobody finished. Call it the ``Bermuda Triangle'' of FreeBSD. :) -- 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. ;-)