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Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 22:29:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
To: El de la seguridad <secmanag@netclub.com.co>
cc: "G. Cabrales" <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: HP-Colorado TapeBackup T1000 
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On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, El de la seguridad wrote:

> I've a Hewlett Packard Colorado Tape Backup T1000 attached to floppy disk 
> wire, and I dont know how to access!
> 
> I've compile my kernel with the ft0 options for that class of tapebackup 
> device, but that not function. I'm trying cv and anothers tapebackup 
> managers with the same problem.

That tape is probably not supported by the current ft device.  A
replacement is in the works but I don't know how good it is on newer
drives.  Check the questions archives for 'lft'.

> What could be the posible solution for that???

Use a SCSI tape instead.  They work flawlessly.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major