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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 01:57:14 +48000
From: Sherman F Mui <sfm46728@challenger.atc.fhda.edu>
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Subject: 2.0.5 Install w/ QIC-80
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Hi,

Basically, my tape drive isn't being detected correctly. Read on if you 
may be able to help.

I'm finally upgrading my 1.1.5 system. I've tar'red the distribution 
files onto a QIC-80 tape (120meg uncompressed) with my Colorado Jumbo 350.

I boot off the boot.flp floppy I made. The nifty install menu stuff comes 
up. I go through all the configuration stuff. My hard drvies are all 
"sliced" up. I "commit". The installation program does all the newfs'ing 
without any problems. Then it says get your QIC-02 tape ready.

I hit enter and watch the beautiful error message pop up.

Now what?

I didn't see a way of telling the kernel what type of tape drive I had 
(btw, it does find the tape drive at bootup "ft0: Colorado tape").

I had the tape in the drive way before bootup. And I even tried to put 
the tape in when prompted. 

And the drive worked great in FreeBSD 1.1.5R. Except that I couldn't use 
the longer tapes (350 meg compressed) ones. 

I'd appreciate any advice anyone could give me.

	Thanks,
	Sherman