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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!aix11.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.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: Floppy tape device? Date: 8 Jun 1996 15:31:23 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4pc6cb$dsh@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4om2a7$1j8@news.aimnet.com> <4ot16h$sv@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4p9ma1$jb8@dracula.hybrid.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@hybrid.com (Ken Gaugler) wrote: > >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. :) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > That's too bad. It would be so nice to be able to say > dump 0f /dev/ft0 <filesystem> > > Oh well, maybe someday (HINT HINT) someone will get around to it. If you do it, name the device ``/dev/rft0''. :-) That's what it is supposed to be... /dev/ft0 is supposed to be a block device you could mount a file system on, i guess that's not your actual intention. Handling QIC-80/QIC-113 tapes seems to be so scaring an operation that you most likely will have to fork out some $$$ for someone to write a driver. Most people here are hacking for fun, but QIC-80 is no fun. -- 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. ;-)