Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 02:18:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca Cc: altitude@umich.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exabyte 8505 Message-ID: <199506300918.CAA02024@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199506291324.GAA24415@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Ken Robinson" at Jun 29, 95 09:24:20 am
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> > Hello, > > > i was wondering what i need to do to get an Exabyte 8505 to work on a > > FreeBSD system (i'm running 2.0R but will be running 2.0.5-SNAP soon). > > > > Currently, when i try to access the tape in any way, it says either device > > busy or : > > > > #mt status > > 7: unknown tape drive type > > I haven't tried this on FreeBSD, but to add an 8205 on a SunOS 4.1.x > machine, we needed to add the following to the st_conf.c file. > [SUN specific changes deleted] > The freebsd SCSI code is TOTALLY different from the SUN code.. version 2.0R had some serious bugs many were cleared up by 2.0.5 but I think there are a couple of them still to go. FreeBSD doesn't support (yet) turning compression on or off. you're stuck with the drive default. julian
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