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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!worldnet.att.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.it.siu.edu!usenet From: jimd@dutton4.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FT no longer reading tapes ? Date: 14 Apr 1997 03:39:28 GMT Organization: Southern Illinois University - Carbondale Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5is8tg$9f0@saluki-news.it.siu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dutton4.it.siu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39032 Yesterday, I was "happily" restoring some backed up files from the builtin FT tape drive (no - I don't have SCSI - this is a "hand-me- down" unit), and I made the mistake of trying to LiSt the floppy installed, at the same time. The LS command returned nothing, which is somewhat unusual as in the past, it would return "device busy" - which is to be expected. Today, I tried to do some more restores, only the FT doesn't seem to be able to read any of the previously used tapes, nor even a brand new tape. It keeps reporting them as "unformatted"?? I remade FT0 (via MAKEDEV), to no avail. So - what did I fry?