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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Hard reboot when acessing floppy-tape in FreeBSD-2.0R
Date: 1 Dec 1994 19:55:18 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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Message-ID: <3bl9n6$sd4@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <AVRAAD.94Nov29082515@qssw04.qsss08.gs.com>
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In article <AVRAAD.94Nov29082515@qssw04.qsss08.gs.com>,
David Avraamides <avraad@qssw04.qsss08.gs.com> wrote:

>I just installed FreeBSD-2.0R this weekend and everything went
>fine (great job guys!). However, I was reading the man pages
>on 'ft', the floppy-tape controller which is supposed to work
>with a Colorado Jumbo 250MB tape drive. Whenever I try tar-ing
>something to the tape I get a complete reboot of my system -
>not even a panic - the screen goes blank, and then I see my
>normal reboot BIOS message!!

I'm pretty sure that a message went by saying there was a conflict
in the 'ft' driver and one of the other drivers.  You're best bet
would be to send your question to questions@freebsd.org and see
if the mailing lists people know what to do with it.


Nate
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