From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 04:50:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA04743 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 04:50:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isabase.philol.msu.ru (isabase.philol.msu.ru [193.232.118.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA04709 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 04:50:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grg@philol.msu.ru) Received: from localhost (grg@localhost) by isabase.philol.msu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA00370; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:49:21 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from grg@philol.msu.ru) X-Authentication-Warning: isabase.philol.msu.ru: grg owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:49:21 +0300 (MSK) From: Grigoriy Strokin To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QIC tape drive (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please excuse me for mailing three times, my e-mail address specified in previous letter was wrong. Please reply to grg@philol.msu.ru ----------------------------------------------- I don't know exactly the model number of my QIC drive, but it's also 250MB. Windows NT detects it as 'QIC-117'. Is it possible to use it in FreeBSD? On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Grigoriy Strokin wrote: > > > I'm having problems trying to use QIC tape drive for FDD controller in > > FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE. Device ft0 is specified in kernel, > > but it seems that FDD controller driver probes on startup > > only those drives that are set in BIOS setup. So, it > > only tests fd0, and says OK, but does NOT event try to test > > ft0. > > What brand of tape do you have? > > Only QIC-40/80 tapes are supported (250mb). > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message