Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:39:37 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com (Frank Durda IV) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports - What is the standard for "ported"? Message-ID: <199510300339.TAA09588@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <m0t9e4S-000ItnC@nemesis.lonestar.org> from "Frank Durda IV" at Oct 29, 95 02:11:00 pm
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> I recently (and am still) going through a rather agonizing migration
> of a SCO UNIX system to FreeBSD 2.0.5.
>
> Apart from lots of issues with SCSI hardware that SCO took in stride and
> FreeBSD hated ("unknown board" errors for an Adaptec 1540A, which is one
> of the non-thru-hole, 2nd generation surface-mount boards,
I BELIEVE this is fixed, they bumped the board-id code and we didn't
recognise it (3 line fix).
> dealing with
> a WangDAT tape drive that under 2.0.5 won't let you remove the media until
> you reboot the system, OR you can issue a mt offline, remove the media, and
> then reboot to get the drive to load new media - that really stinks and
> didn't happen under SCO and I hope it is fixed in 2.1.0), I ran into a lot
> of application issues.
Are you saying that a
mt -f /dev/nrst0 offline
stops the tape from ever working again?
I've never heard that before..
julian
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