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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: vexing Tape and Video problems in NetBSD 0.9 Date: 18 Feb 1994 12:58:54 -0600 Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 35 Message-ID: <2k335s$ji4@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <2joeql$4oc@qualcomm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil Keywords: DFI, CMS, QIC-80 In article <2joeql$4oc@qualcomm.com>, Brian Ellis <bri@qualcomm.com> wrote: >I've run into two vexing problems with my hardware. Can someone suggest fixes? > >Tape >---- >I have a Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 250 tape drive (the kind that >attaches to the floppy cable). NetBSD apparently cannot see the device >with the stock device drivers (wt0 and st0). Am I totally SOL? Has >anyone seen a device driver that would do the trick? The manufacturer >couldn't help me. > Last I heard, Marc Wandschneider and I were working on it. I installed the FreeBSD patches for the driver (version 0.3???) and hand applied the couple of pieces that didn't install on their own. It doesn't work yet, but I am not sure if that is because of my drive, or if I am doing something wrong (the latter would be my guess). The -current version of FreeBSD seems to include QIC-40/80 support in their native code. If you are desirous to use the drive now and don't owe a lot of allegiance one way or another, you might want to wait and install the new version of FreeBSD (out Real Soon Now (tm)). If you (like me) are really masochistically attached to NetBSD, you can grab the patches (I don't remember from where). and try and install it yourself. The device will configure (BTW) as ft0... -- TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC Applications Programming Branch US Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, NE burgessd@j64.stratcom.af.mil