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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 21:12:59 -0500
From: Tom Jackson <toj@silverback.gorilla.net>
To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: QIC-80 Tape Drive Troubles
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Check both 'man ft' and 'man mt'

On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 07:03:57PM -0500, Frank Griffith wrote:
> I have FreeBSD 2.2.7 running on a Pentium computer with a
> QIC-80 tape drive daisy chained on the floppy controller. The
> tape drive was in a Conner box when I bought it about two
> years ago. It has worked fine under DOS, Win95 and WinNT.
> FreeBSD recognizes it as device ft0. When I execute this
> command line:
> 
>     mt -f /dev/ft0 rewind
> 
> The tape drive light comes on and the tape drive whirs for a
> few moments and it appears that the tape is rewinding, but
> I then get the error message:
> 
>     mt: /dev/ft0 rewind:  Device not configured
> 
> Can someone tell me what's going on here?
> 
> 
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