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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!ix.netcom.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!newsfeed.gte.net!news-in.iadfw.net!pcrown.net!news-in.iadfw.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /dev/ft0 "not configured" ???? Date: 26 Apr 1997 15:07:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <42DC58B212880695.3BAB53A4A6237677.C3BC195049F9200D@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <5jt5nm$i8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5js470$fo7@uuneo.neosoft.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dal45-8.ppp.iadfw.net 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39798 cazzi@usa.net (Ana) wrote: > The tape drive has ben recognised correctly - and I think tar cvf > /dev/ft0 works .. but tar xvf /dev/ft0 accesses the tape, then generates > the error message tape not configured - what am I doing wrong. /dev/[r]ft0 ain't a normal read/write tape device. You need to filter your data through ft(8). RTFM... -- 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. ;-)