From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 8:29: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roscoe.springsips.com (roscoe.springsips.com [12.10.189.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 867991508B for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:28:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rtroy@springsips.com) Received: (qmail 15140 invoked from network); 28 Oct 1999 15:28:52 -0000 Received: from liquid.mist.springsips.com (HELO RYANSPRINGSIPS) (12.10.189.202) by roscoe.springsips.com with SMTP; 28 Oct 1999 15:28:52 -0000 From: "Ryan Troy" To: Subject: Seagate Travan Tape Drive Support Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:34:17 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got a 4gig Seagate Travan IDE ATAPI tape drive recently I am running FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE it detects it on boot as wdc1 the IDE channel its on so I compiled the kernel with this option: device wst0 #Tape Drive Like it said in the LINT file, so then on reboot I get: wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): , removable, accel, dma, iordis wst0: Drive empty, readonly, reverse, qfa, ecc, 512b wst0: Max speed=600Kb/s, Transfer limit=52 blocks, Buffer size=728 blocks Then I goto /dev/ there is no entry for it ./MAKEDEV wont make the entry is this tape drive compatible with FreeBSD 3.3? or am i missing a step? Any suggestions i dont want to switch back to linux. Thanks Ryan Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message