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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:38:44 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        karl@Denninger.Net (Karl Denninger)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format?
Message-ID:  <199912130738.IAA28004@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19991212140541.A57969@Denninger.Net> from Karl Denninger at "Dec 12, 1999 02:05:41 pm"

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It seems Karl Denninger wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Well, I'm in for it now ;-)
> 
> I'm going to have to start supporting ATAPI tape drives on FreeBSD for some
> business associates - they're too cheap to go SCSI.
> 
> Some of these (if not all) require formatting, right?  This leads to the
> obvious question:
> 
> 	How do you format a tape for these drives under FreeBSD? :-)

You dont, they "just works" out of the box.

> Anything else I should know offhand other than "plug it in and use dump like
> everything else"?

Not really...

-Søren


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