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From: tst@academia.swt.edu (Thomas S. Traylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Tape Drive && FreeBSD
Date: 28 Jan 1995 01:54:22 GMT
Organization: Southwest Texas State University
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Paul E Rubin (prubin@csws15.ic.sunysb.edu) wrote:
: Hi everyone.
: I have a Colorado Jumbo 250MB Tape drive. I'm trying to get it to work
: with FreeBSD-1.1B but am having some problems.
: I Recompiled the kernel but somehow the drive doesn't get recognized (ie
: probed) when the system boots up..
I'm having this same problem but with FreeBSD 2.0 950112-SNAP. I had
the tape working with FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE.
I had to apply this patch to /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/ft.c to get it to work
with 2.0-RELEASE, but this patch didn't seem to work for SNAP.
*** /sys/i386/isa/ft.c.release Sun Nov 13 12:11:52 1994
--- /sys/i386/isa/ft.c Sun Nov 13 12:14:47 1994
***************
*** 1468,1474 ****
goto intrdone;
case FTCMD_RECAL:
case FTCMD_SEEK:
! for (retries = 0; retries < 10000; retries++) {
out_fdc(fdcu, NE7CMD_SENSEI);
st0 = in_fdc(fdcu);
pcn = in_fdc(fdcu);
--- 1468,1474 ----
goto intrdone;
case FTCMD_RECAL:
case FTCMD_SEEK:
! for (retries = 0; retries < 1000000; retries++) {
out_fdc(fdcu, NE7CMD_SENSEI);
I would like to get my tape drive working again, so any ideas or suggestions
would be appreciated.
Tom
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