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Subject: Exabyte 8505
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 18:21:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex Tang <altitude@umich.edu>
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Hi gang.

i was wondering what i need to do to get an Exabyte 8505 to work on a
FreeBSD system (i'm running 2.0R but will be running 2.0.5-SNAP soon).  

Currently, when i try to access the tape in any way, it says either device
busy or :

#mt status
7: unknown tape drive type

Thanx.
...alex...