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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: getting a floppy tape working on FreeBSD 1.1R Date: 24 May 1994 03:55:56 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 13 Message-ID: <JKH.94May24045556@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <2rp1ju$d7r@werple.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: gfm@werple.apana.org.au's message of 23 May 1994 11:41:18 +1000 In article <2rp1ju$d7r@werple.apana.org.au> gfm@werple.apana.org.au (Graham Menhennitt) writes: I have added the ft0 driver to the kernel. It recognises the tape at boot but any attempt to access it hangs the process. I guess the driver is still not really working. I have heard that it does work in -current. Can someone I'm very surprised to hear this, since many folks have been using the floppy tape driver with good success right up through 1.1Beta. In freebsd-current, the only change I've made recently to the floppy tape driver was to take over Steve's improvements to the error correction code. Jordan