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Floppy tape (QIC-40/80) has been dead for over two years, before RELENG_3

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branch point. Let it rest in peace.

While it may be argued that the FAQ covers 2.x too, I think it's better
to not even mention the floppy tape here.
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</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.124 2000/11/15 14:28:18 ben Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.125 2000/11/26 13:23:17 ben Exp $</pubdate>
<abstract>
<para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X.
@ -2896,10 +2896,8 @@ diff -u -r1.60.2.1 -r1.60.2.2
<answer>
<para>FreeBSD supports SCSI, QIC-36 (with a QIC-02 interface)
and QIC-40/80 (Floppy based) tape drives. This includes 8-mm
(aka Exabyte) and DAT drives. The QIC-40/80 drives are known to
be slow.</para>
<para>FreeBSD supports SCSI and QIC-36 (with a QIC-02 interface).
This includes 8-mm (aka Exabyte) and DAT drives.</para>
<para>Some of the early 8-mm drives are not quite compatible
with SCSI-2, and may not work well with FreeBSD.</para>
@ -4834,50 +4832,6 @@ device sio5 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr</programlisting>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="qic-4080">
<para>How do I enable support for QIC-40/80 drives?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>You need to uncomment the following line in the generic
config file (or add it to your config file), add a
<literal>flags 0x1</literal> on the <ulink
URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?fdc(4)">fdc</ulink>
line and recompile.</para>
<programlisting>controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 flags 0x1 vector fdintr
disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 ^^^^^^^^^
disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
#tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</programlisting>
<para>Next, you create a device called
<filename>/dev/ft0</filename> by going into
<filename>/dev</filename> and run the following command:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sh MAKEDEV ft0</userinput></screen>
<para>for the first device. <devicename>ft1</devicename> for a
second one and so on.</para>
<para>You will have a device called <filename>/dev/ft0</filename>,
which you can write to through a special program to manage it
called <command>fd</command> - see the man page on <ulink
URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?ft">ft</ulink> for
further details.</para>
<para>Versions previous to <option>-CURRENT</option> also had
some trouble dealing with bad tape media; if you have trouble
where <command>ft</command> seems to go back and forth over the
same spot, try grabbing the latest version of
<command>ft</command> from
<filename>/usr/src/sbin/ft</filename> in
<option>-CURRENT</option> and try that.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
</qandaset>
</chapter>

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</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.124 2000/11/15 14:28:18 ben Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.125 2000/11/26 13:23:17 ben Exp $</pubdate>
<abstract>
<para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X.
@ -2896,10 +2896,8 @@ diff -u -r1.60.2.1 -r1.60.2.2
<answer>
<para>FreeBSD supports SCSI, QIC-36 (with a QIC-02 interface)
and QIC-40/80 (Floppy based) tape drives. This includes 8-mm
(aka Exabyte) and DAT drives. The QIC-40/80 drives are known to
be slow.</para>
<para>FreeBSD supports SCSI and QIC-36 (with a QIC-02 interface).
This includes 8-mm (aka Exabyte) and DAT drives.</para>
<para>Some of the early 8-mm drives are not quite compatible
with SCSI-2, and may not work well with FreeBSD.</para>
@ -4834,50 +4832,6 @@ device sio5 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr</programlisting>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="qic-4080">
<para>How do I enable support for QIC-40/80 drives?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>You need to uncomment the following line in the generic
config file (or add it to your config file), add a
<literal>flags 0x1</literal> on the <ulink
URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?fdc(4)">fdc</ulink>
line and recompile.</para>
<programlisting>controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 flags 0x1 vector fdintr
disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 ^^^^^^^^^
disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
#tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</programlisting>
<para>Next, you create a device called
<filename>/dev/ft0</filename> by going into
<filename>/dev</filename> and run the following command:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sh MAKEDEV ft0</userinput></screen>
<para>for the first device. <devicename>ft1</devicename> for a
second one and so on.</para>
<para>You will have a device called <filename>/dev/ft0</filename>,
which you can write to through a special program to manage it
called <command>fd</command> - see the man page on <ulink
URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?ft">ft</ulink> for
further details.</para>
<para>Versions previous to <option>-CURRENT</option> also had
some trouble dealing with bad tape media; if you have trouble
where <command>ft</command> seems to go back and forth over the
same spot, try grabbing the latest version of
<command>ft</command> from
<filename>/usr/src/sbin/ft</filename> in
<option>-CURRENT</option> and try that.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
</qandaset>
</chapter>