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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: FT tape drive filter.
To: bextreme@m4.sprynet.com (Jesse)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 07:47:21 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199609100532.WAA03742@m4.sprynet.com> from "Jesse" at Jan 9, 86 11:32:58 pm
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Jesse wrote:
> 
>  Hello, I am running into a slight problem with my Colorado QIC-80 
> tape backup. You see, we are using 170mb QIC-80 tapes, however FT 
> seems to only want to use 120mb tapes. So when it saves 120mb of 
> data, it loops infinitly, writing 1k over and over and over, ad 
> nauseam. It doesn't even stop when it reaches 170!
>   If someone knows either a fix, a new version, or SOMETHING that I 
> can do to get it work, I would gretaly appreciate it.

	try the new floppy tape drive program "lft"  you can get a copy
	from  ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/incoming/lft.tar.gz.uu

jmb
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