From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 22:51:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97A014E65 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from pandora.home (jgl.reno.nv.us [207.228.2.142]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA13355; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by pandora.home (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id WAA32795; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:51:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <012601be6930$0c5694a0$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Paul - DragNet" , Subject: Re: Please Help Re: Floppy Tape Drive in BSD 2.2.2 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:50:06 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul wrote: >Hi I have a colorado 3.6gb floppy tape backup drive. >I need it to perfom regular backups on our system. >I have recompiled the kernal to enable its support as >/dev/ft0 but when i try to read or write to it it says >"Device not configured". This is strange as it worked >fine until we upgraded to BSD. >I have been unable to find any useful info on the subject >on irc or in the newsgroups about this except for them >recommending that i get some ide tape drives for our >organisation, this is not really an option since our taoe >drives work fine & are suited enough for our needs. >BTW: there is no mention of ft0 in dmesg. Official support for floppy tapes was dropped in 3.0-STABLE and later; see /usr/src/UPDATING entry on 19981224. However, Mark Hannon has some good info on *unofficially* adding it back in. Take a look at http://w1.874.telia.com/~u87405149/ftape.html for instructions. I haven't tried it yet for my old Jumbo 250, so let me know if it works :-) --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message