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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.wham.siu.edu!usenet From: jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive suggestions??? Date: 12 Jul 1996 01:24:52 GMT Organization: Southern Illinois University - Carbondale Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4s49h4$cjt@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu> References: <4ru18i$mll@mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu> <DuC0y7.Asx@tigger.jvnc.net> <31E44224.41C6@ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dutton2.it.siu.edu X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.5 In article <31E44224.41C6@ucdavis.edu>, Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> writes: >I would stay away from tape drives that are chained in with your >floppies. I know people are having problems with QIC-80 drives. >I would stay away from drives that require ft (until it is working >better). My QIC-80 drive is useless so far. Is that why even though FreeBSD V2.05 MAKEDEV's *ft0 and recognizes a Colorado 250Mb as ft0, but no tape or dump commands will work with the device - "not configured" ??