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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
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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" ??