I've been looking into this myself, although I haven't actually cracked it yet.
Is TAR present in FreeNAS 8 ? you can write to tapes using TAR.
To see if the tape drive is showing up in the OS, type "mt status" and see what it puts out (That's a Solaris command, mt might be different under BSD)
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