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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!flyer!robkaos!robsch From: robsch@robkaos.GUN.de (Robert Schien) Subject: wt.c tape driver and lpa.c printer driver Organization: Private System, Essen, Germany Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 22:33:34 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <1993Oct26.223334.2735@robkaos.GUN.de> Lines: 17 The wt.c driver, which is delivered with FreeBSD-EPSILON, does not work with my Wangtek 5099EK (60 MB) tape drive. This drive has a PC/QIC-36 interface and it worked fine with ESIX 5.3.2D (For testing I tried SCO Xenix and ISC 2.2.1 and it worked with these OSs, too). With the driver in 386bsd-0.1, I could read tapes, but not write. With the "improved" driver, I could neither read nor write (all minor devices tried). The solution was a driver from someone in Sweden (his name is Mikael Hybsch (sp?)), which worked for me already with 386bsd-0.1. I could tell the same story about the lpa.c parallel driver. Old versions of it work, the one shipped with FreeBSD does not. But, of course, writing device drivers is a hard business and I would be happy if I could do it. I hope that WJ will come out with his book soon. Robert