From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 06:24:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA24421 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 06:24:42 -0700 Received: from nrnsinc.on.ca (0@rads.dnd.ca [131.136.194.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA24415 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 06:24:40 -0700 Message-Id: <199506291324.GAA24415@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: from nrnsinc.on.ca by nrnsinc.on.ca id <18079-0@nrnsinc.on.ca>; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 09:24:26 -0400 Subject: Re: Exabyte 8505 To: altitude@umich.edu (Alex Tang) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 09:24:20 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506282221.SAA22560@petrified.cic.net> from "Alex Tang" at Jun 28, 95 06:21:11 pm Reply-to: robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca Organization: DREnet Network Coordination Centre, 1-613-599-7860, 1-613-990-9302 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1509 From: Ken Robinson Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, > 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 I haven't tried this on FreeBSD, but to add an 8205 on a SunOS 4.1.x machine, we needed to add the following to the st_conf.c file. /* Exabyte 8mm 2.3GB 8205 1/2 height cartridge w/compression */ { "Exabyte EXB-8205 8mm Helical Scan", 16, "EXABYTE EXB-8205", ST_TYPE_EXB8500, 1024, (ST_VARIABLE | ST_BSF | ST_BSR | ST_LONG_ERASE), 5000, 5000, { 0x14, 0x0C, 0x90, 0x0C }, { 0, 0, 0, 0 } }, This identifies the drive from it's ID string. You will of course have to make the appropriate modifications for the 8505 string. Also note, to use it without compression, use /dev/rstX where X=0-7, for compression, X=16-23, The value is based on the SCSI ID of the drive. Eg, ID 5 with compression should be 21. Good Luck. -- Ken Robinson DREnet Network Coordination Centre (NCC) NRNS Incorporated Phone: 613.599.7860 Fax: 613.599.7739 135 Michael Cowpland Dr., Suite 302 Kanata, Ontario K2M-2E9