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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: HP Colorado Tape T3000i Floppy
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:25:16 -0800 (PST)
Cc: davide.tome@inet.it, support@freebsd.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970327113325.354H-100000@localhost> from "Doug White" at Mar 27, 97 11:34:38 am
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Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Dott. Davide Tome' wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Two Questions:
> > 
> > 1) Is the HP Colorado Tape T3000i floppy supported in some of
> >     the future versions of FreeBsd ?
> 
> Not unless someone shapes up the ft driver.  SCSI tapes are the way to go.
> The floppy interfaces tend to be pretty proprietary.

	use lft in place of ft is you must use floppy tape.
	lft is available on freefall ~jmb/lft.tar.gz
	i will alos put it up for anonymous ftp later today
	on freefall
jmb