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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:48:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Ryan Troy <rtroy@springsips.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Seagate Travan Tape Drive Support
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.991028124208.29519D-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <EIEIILDHIFEJBPAIPJJOIEKJCAAA.rtroy@springsips.com>

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> 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

> 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?

Hi, Ryan.

$ ls -l /dev/*wst*
crw-r-----  1 root  operator   90,   0 Jul 18 04:46 /dev/rwst0

There's a wst(4) man page too.
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Trevor Johnson



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