Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:04:30 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Todd Reed <ex279@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape backup on Floppy controller Message-ID: <20020703233430.GC5827@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <F49ZCeHc0JIquPdbYpR0000638d@hotmail.com> References: <F49ZCeHc0JIquPdbYpR0000638d@hotmail.com>
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On Wednesday, 3 July 2002 at 18:31:28 -0500, Todd Reed wrote: > I have a tape drive that runs on a floppy controller. It works fine when I > had windows running on the machine, but now that I've got BSD on the box, > I'm having trouble finding the tape drive? I've looked in the /dev > directory and tried mounting it using some of the standard mount points, > but nothing has worked. Does anyone have any advice they could offer? FreeBSD no longer supports these tapes. That's a good thing, too. They're extremely unreliable. The last thing you want is a backup you can't read. If you're really dead set on using these devices, you can find an older version of FreeBSD which does support them. I can't recall which was the last version; maybe 2.2.8. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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