From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 11 23:49:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from subcellar.mwci.net (subcellar.mwci.net [205.254.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6734214D4F for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 23:49:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheber@mwci.net) Received: from sean.mwci.net (kb0lcj-10.dbq.mwci.net [209.207.4.10]) by subcellar.mwci.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA28217 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 01:49:36 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sony SuperStation Tape Drive not working (atapi) From: "Sean Heber" Reply-To: sheber@mwci.net Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 01:49:34 CST Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Message-ID: <944984974_PM_BeOS.sheber@mwci.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Postmaster 1.0 for BeOS Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello again. I can't figure out how to get my Sony SuperStation Internal IDE tape drive to work. I've messed with the kernel configs and it seems like FreeBSD sees the drive. It is acknowledged when the OS boots: From my dmesg.today file: wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, accel, iordy However, the various /dev entries that are often references in tape backup howtos don't seem to work at all. I'm always getting "drive not ready" errors and such. I've read that sometimes FreeBSD can have troubles with ATAPI, is that true? And if so, is there any way to make this drive work? Running: 2 x Intel PII 400Mhz FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE (SMP) Thanks. l8r Sean http://www.bebits.com/ BeBits - The best BeOS Software ----------------------------------- This message was sent with the demo version of Postmaster, a BeOS mail client. For more information, please visit http://kennyc.com/postmaster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message