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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Problem with Julian's SCSI drivers Date: 1 Oct 1993 15:08:08 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 34 Message-ID: <28hh4o$im0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CD7EyC.4Ax@nas.nasa.gov> <27aein$jlr@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <CDIrxy.4oH@veda.is> <28f4hm$51d@keltia.frmug.fr.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu [ FYI - You'll get much better response from the FreeBSD developers if you send email to freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com. The reason for this is that it's harder to pick out FreeBSD questions from News due to headers that aren't always obvious, and that we don't always have time to read News ] In article <28f4hm$51d@keltia.frmug.fr.net>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net> wrote: >Speaking of Julian's drivers, I installed FreeBSD yesterday. Thanks a lot >for all for that fine piece of software... The installation script is >great, everything is very clean, congratulations ! > >But during the installation, I encountered a few problems : 1 have a >Archive/Maynard 2 GB DAT. It is identified without any problem by the >autoconfig code, fine. But I cannot read anything from it unless I write >something to it before. I have a complete backup of my 386BSD setup in 3 >dumpfiles and it was unable to read anything from it. There have been lots of recent modifications to Julian's SCSI code, in particular in the tape driver area, so it's possible that it may have been fixed in the most current sources. We hope to have a newer release out this weekend, and this *may* have the updated code in it if we can justify it's stability. (Things have changed alot, and it may not be sufficiently tested) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me