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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape drive suggestions???
Date: 13 Jul 1996 11:06:33 GMT
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jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) wrote:

> 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" ??

Yep.  The `ft' device nodes aren't normal tape devices, the only
program that can handle them is ft(8).

-- 
cheers, J"org

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