Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 14:05:30 +1000 From: Joel Sutton <sutton@aardvark.apana.org.au> To: jim.chapman@sympatico.ca Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: floppy tape Message-ID: <199704280405.OAA00711@solsbury-hill.home> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:01:59 PST." <3362C116.41C67EA6@anchorage.net>
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Jim, > > I have been given a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive. I installed it in > > my machine and inserted a QIC-80 tape. When I boot the tape reads but > > when I give the command lft I get a message > > /dev/rft0 Not Configured > > What do I need to do to get the system to configure the drive? 1) make sure you have everything compiled into your kernel. 2) you "MAY" need to run MAKEDEV from the /dev directory to create the ft device. But it sounds like your drive hasn't been properly detected. I've included another email that I sent to someone which may help you. > > Does lft work as is with 425 ft tapes? Yes, provided that you patch the ft driver and recompile the kernel. Email me personally if you're interested in trying this out. I hope this helps, Joel... To Michael Alwan <alwan@rma.edu> Subject: Re: qic-80 floppy tape not detected Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:59:35 +1000 Michael, > This is the second time I've posted this message to > questions@freebsd.org--if no one knows the answer, my apologies for > the repost. Hang in there. There are only a few ft people around here (maybe only me???) but we'll see what we can do to help. > It occurs to me, maybe the tape drive isn't detected as a > device at boot-up, or maybe it should be configured as drive 2 on the > fdc0 controller, since I only have one floppy drive. According to your dmesg output it doesn't even seem to be looking for your tape drive. You'll need to recompile your kernel and change your floppy drive section to something similar to mine: # Floppy Drive and Colorado Jumbo 350 # controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio flags 1 irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2 Note the flags keyword in the controller entry. Also, fd1 is necessary even if you don't have two floppys (like me). Check out the handbook for info on customizing your kernel. > Trying to mount > the tape drive (mount /dev/ft0 /mnt) gives me a "device not configured" > message. I've made the device in /dev. Since you've gone with a qic-80 drive you will only be able to use the "ft" and "lft" programs to put/get data onto those drives. Mount is definitely out. Search the mail archives for the location of lft (I can't find a reference just at the moment) - it works pretty well for me on my Colorado 350. What sort of drive do you have? Hope this helps and good luck, Joel...
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