From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 27 21:18:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA08681 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:18:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA08672 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:18:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06162; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:18:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:18:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Chuck cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Exabyte tape question In-Reply-To: <199707271759.NAA00290@localhost.nih.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Chuck wrote: > Just installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 in a new box. Said box (acquired off > the net) includes an Exabyte Travan Eagle (using all the trademarked > names off the box) tape drive with ISA accelerator card. The > original (GENERIC?) kernel from the CD fails to find it, and all > Exabyte's info doesn't say anything about whether it's PNP, or > where its IO addresses are, just to bring up some Microsoft OS > (forgot which) and say A:INSTALL or something. I have no Microsoft > products on the new box. Am I out of luck? This is probably some sort of floppy-tape device, which isn't supported at current. I suggest returning said box for SCSI controller/tape combo for optimum performance and support. More expensive but you'll like it much better. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo