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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development From: David@maxwell.demon.co.uk (David Woakes) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!qmw-dcs!qmw!demon!maxwell.demon.co.uk!David Subject: QIC 80 driver Distribution: world Organization: Mitredata Ltd Reply-To: David@maxwell.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21) Lines: 36 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 23:42:54 +0000 Message-ID: <740187774snz@maxwell.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk I downloaded the QIC 80 driver from hrd769.brooks.af.mil:/pub/alpha and successfully installed it in 386bsd (with patchkit 0.2.3 applied previously). I rebuilt the kernal (no errors) and rebooted. After seeing my only floppy I got the following messages (I commented out the tape command debug line in ft.c) fd0: drives 0: 1.44Mtape_start start tape_recal start tape_recal end tape_recal end qic_status has dead drive ... st3 = $28 qic_status has dead drive ... st3 = $28 qic_status has dead drive ... st3 = $28 tape_recal start tape_recal start tape_recal end tape_recal end qic_status returned $01 tape_status got $0001 tape_end start tape_recal start tape_recal end tape_end end ,2:Summit tape at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa My config file has nfs commented out along with the scsi drivers and devices if that's important. I next tarred the contents of a directory and attempted to list the tape using "tar tv". This seemed to list the tape and then hung. I can give further details if anyone is interested. My tape drive is an ArchiveXL 9250i, QIC-80, 120/250Mb device and I was using a DC2120 tape. -- David Woakes