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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 14:52:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Abraham J. Stephens" <stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Colorado 120 QIC tape drives.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505145151.25757C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980505105820.5712A-100000@aasis.albany-academy.org>

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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Abraham J. Stephens wrote:

> Could anyone provide instructions for backing up with a QIC 80 tape drive.
> how do I format tapes? then how do I use them?

You shouldn't have to format the tapes, just pipe dump to /dev/rft and off
you go.

See the ft man page for details.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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