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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!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.nacamar.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: kudos & need help w. floppy tape & ft Date: 20 May 1997 23:50:43 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5ltdcj$ni@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <337FDA8B.1839@synet.net> <EAF6Ex.Gz@sphynx.fdn.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de 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:41325 causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) wrote: > : Is there a raw device for floppy tape that mt will talk to? > Yes, /dev/rft0 is the `raw' device while /dev/ft0 is the block one. Not really useful for the latter... The current implementation of ft(4) sucks rocks, and it doesn't even implement a strategy() entry point for read/write access to the raw device. A buffered device simply doesn't make sense at all. /dev/rft0 can only be accessed via ft(8). -- 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. ;-)