Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 18:53:20 +1100 (EST) From: Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Driver for Colorado Jumbo 350 Floppy Tape Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961208162051.224A-100000@solsbury-hill.home>
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Greetings,
I have recently purchased and set up a Jumbo 350 tape drive on my FreeBSD
2.1.5 machine without too much hastle but I am having trouble in that the
ft driver does not seem to recognize the geometry of my 170Mb tape. I get
part way through my backup and then the tape drive tries to wind the tape
on further than it can actually go, giving off a whole bunch of write
errors.
I have be searching through the mail archives and I have found references
to a new driver called "lft" which is (was?) being tested. Is it still
available? Where could I find a copy? Or perhaps it is going to be
included in 2.1.6???
If anyone has come up with some quick fixs to the source code for ft so
that it will recognize the tape I would love to hear from you also.
My system config follows.
Thanks, Joel...
System Specifications : Solsbury-hill - FreeBSD 2.1.5 release
* Intel Pentium 133
* 32Mb EDO RAM
* EIDE controller - on the motherboard
+ NEC EIDE CD-ROM 280/3.08
+ Seagate 2.1GB EIDE Hard Drive
+ Seagate 1.2GB EIDE Hard Drive (used for Windows 95)
* Floppy Controller - NEC 765
+ 3.5" Floppy Drive
+ Colorado Jumbo 350 Tape Drive
* Trident TGUI 9680-PCI Graphics Card
* ESS 1688 - 16PnP Sound Card (Emulating a SB-Pro only)
* Dick Smith 16550A Dual UART Serial Card
* Internal Banksia Myin Modem
* SVEC Ethernet card - NE2000 compatable
* External bits and pieces
+ Cannon Bubble Jet - BJC 210 (using Ghostscript)
+ KTX Topscan 15" monitor
Kernal Configuration:
#
# EVERYDAY kernel
# for Solsbury-Hill - Pentium 133
# Last Modified: 29th December, 1996
#
# Needed for CPU
#
machine "i386"
cpu "I586_CPU"
ident EVERYDAY
maxusers 15
# General OS stuff
#
options INET # InterNETworking
options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options NFS # Network Filesystem
options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem
options "CD9660" # ISO 9660 Filesystem
options PROCFS # Process filesystem
options "COMPAT_43" # Compatible with BSD 4.3
options BOUNCE_BUFFERS # include support for DMA bounce buffers
options UCONSOLE # Allow users to grab the console
options SYSVSHM #
options SYSVSEM #
options SYSVMSG #
# Which device do we boot from?
#
config kernel root on wd0
# Busses on the motherboard
#
controller isa0
controller pci0
# Floppy Drive and Coloardo Jumbo 350
#
controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio flags 1 irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2
# Segate 2.1Gb disk - FreeBSD Volume
#
controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0
disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1
# Segate 1.2Gb disk - Windows 95/DOS Volume
# Not to be mounted under any circumstances
#
controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr
disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0
disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1
# NEC IDE CD-ROM Drive
# Sits on controller two so both OS's can access
#
options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
device wcd0 #IDE CD-ROM
# System console
# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
#
device sc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr
options XSERVER
options "MAXCONS=4"
# Floating point math co-processor - DONT REMOVE
# Support for x87 emualtion via new math emulator
device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr
options GPL_MATH_EMULATE
# Serial port devices
# sio0 = mouse
# sio1 = internal modem
# sio2 = comm port (terminal or ppp)
# sio3 = comm port (terminal or ppp)
#
device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr
device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr
device sio2 at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr
device sio3 at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr
# Printer Port - interupt
# You must specify the port otherwise it effects the ESS sound card.
#
device lpt0 at isa? port 0x378 tty irq 7 vector lptintr
# Ethernet Devices - SVEC Ethernet card (NE2000)
#
device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 11 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
# Pseudo Network devices
#
pseudo-device sl 1 # Kernal SLIP
pseudo-device ppp 3 # Kernal PPP
pseudo-device tun 1 # Tunnel for user PPP
pseudo-device bpfilter 1 # Berkeley packet filter
# General Pseudo devices
#
pseudo-device loop # Loopback
pseudo-device ether # Ethernet
pseudo-device log # Syslog
pseudo-device pty 32 # virtual terminals
pseudo-device gzip # Exec gzipped a.out's
pseudo-device snp 2 # Snoop devices
# Sound devices
# ESS 1668 PnP 16
#
controller snd0
device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr
options "SBC_IRQ=7"
device opl0 at isa? port 0x388 conflicts
device joy0 at isa? port "IO_GAME"
# Power management device
#
device apm0 at isa?
#options APM_BROKEN_STATCLOCK
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