Re: Formating a ftape tape?
On 10 Mar, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? I don't
>>> feel like rebooting to Win95 just to do this. I know I can use mt to
>>> 'erase' the tape but that just erases the header on the tape.
>
> As far as I am aware then you can not use Linux to format these tapes, this
> may of course depend on what tape drive you are using, I used a dos based tape
> formatting program to do my tapes with, I think you can format them using
> dosemu but I'm not sure.
>
> But checkout the ftape howto that may answer you question better than I can.
>
> Graham
Sorry, I should have checked the HOWTO first, jeez...
4.8. Can I format my tapes under Linux?
No!
Brian
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