Re: Formating a ftape tape?
Ftape-3.04d includes the ftformat command. I have installed it from
source, but there is now a .deb package, at least in hamm. The man page
indicates it will format QIC-80 tapes, but I haven't done that.
Bob
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, 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
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