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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Exabyte 8505
To: robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 02:18:17 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: altitude@umich.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199506291324.GAA24415@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Ken Robinson" at Jun 29, 95 09:24:20 am
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> 
> 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.
> 
[SUN specific changes deleted]
> 
The freebsd SCSI code is TOTALLY different from the SUN code..
version 2.0R had some serious bugs 
many were cleared up by 2.0.5
but I think there are a couple of them still to go.

FreeBSD doesn't support (yet) turning compression on or off.
you're stuck with the drive default.

julian