Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 22:04:53 +0000 From: Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ft0 doesn't work with new motherboard Message-ID: <199609072204.WAA00253@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
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Hi all, Some month ago I upgraded to a Pentium motherboard for my FreeBSD system. Prior to that change I had been using a Conner floppy tape drive with some success. After the upgrade ft0 refuses to be recognized, originally I thought the drive had been damaged in the swap and I took it back to the store - imagine my embarrasment when the vendor said that it was working fine, sure enough when I hooked it up and used DOS then the drive is recognized OK.... FreeBSD is however a different story. I played around with ft.c to try and dig some more info out, defining DPRT gives me the following messages at boot. (I also forced a call to ftreq_hwinfo , thus my comments about a hack...) tape_start start tape_recal start tape_recal end tape_start end ===> tape_cmd: 6 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 1 newcn = 6 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 1 newcn = 6 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 1 newcn = 6 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2 newcn = 6 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2 newcn = 6 ft0: tape_cmd seek failed! ft0: QIC status timeout ===> tape_cmd: 6 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2 newcn = 8 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2 newcn = 8 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2 newcn = 8 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2 newcn = 8 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2 newcn = 8 ft0: tape_cmd seek failed! ft0: QIC status timeout Entering Mark's ugly hack ===> tape_cmd: 9 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2 newcn = 11 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2 newcn = 11 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 3 newcn = 11 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 3 newcn = 11 ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 3 newcn = 11 ft0: tape_cmd seek failed! ft0: QIC status timeout Anybody now what this means?? From reading the code I can't really work it out. I would appreciate any ideas for how to go further. Regards/mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
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