From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 29 11:59:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13441 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 11:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from limbo.senate.org (nathan@senate.org [204.141.125.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13426 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 11:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by limbo.senate.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16476 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 14:59:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 14:59:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Dorfman Message-Id: <199706291859.OAA16476@limbo.senate.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: QIC-80 Floppy Tapes Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi! I want to set up my Conner QIC-80 floppy tape with FreeBSD. I see it detected on startup. I did a MAKEDEV ft0 and came up with these files: ft0 ft0a rft0 rft0a If I understand correctly, the rft* are the ones that rewind after every operation, and the ft* ones aren't. When I'm using tar or mt to perform backups rewinds or other such operations, would I use *0 or *0a? Sorry about this week's f..l..o..w of questions :) I will try to make this one of my last, after upgrading to 2.2-stable anyway :)