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 --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .