Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 18:07:24 -0800 (PST) From: "Mark Smith" <msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for Colorado Tape Drive? Message-ID: <9601080207.AA21427@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <01HZQFG5091K009KS7@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> from "Annelise Anderson" at Jan 7, 96 03:43:38 pm
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> I've got a Colorado 250 tape drive on a system on which I've just > installed FreeBSD 2.1. The drive is recognized with the bootup > message ft0: Colorado tape. > > When I try to use it I get the message "device not configured." > > E.g., /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind produces this message, and > I get the same message if I substitute rft0 or ft0 for rst0. You don't mount the floppy tape device. What you do is check out the man page for ft. You end up doing something like: tar -cvzf - / | ft "description" That should do the trick. Mark -- ========================================================================= UNIX IS user friendly, it's just very choosy about who it calls a friend! =========================================================================
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