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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ruhr.de!robkaos!robsch From: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) Subject: Re: Tape drive trouble X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Private System, Essen, Germany Message-ID: <1995Jan28.152729.180@robkaos.ruhr.de> References: <3gavop$chr@ns.oar.net> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 15:27:29 GMT Lines: 18 Kenneth Furge (kfurge@ysi.com) wrote: : Recently I acquired an old tape drive system : and am trying to get it integrated into my : FreeBSD-2.0 system. The controller is a : Everex QIC-36 controller connected to a Wantek : tape drive. The drive gets recognized by the : kernel (on wt0) but when I try to use it in a tar : command (i.e. "tar cvf /dev/rst0 ./*"), I get a : "Device not configured" error. Any thoughts on : where I would find any information on configuring : the device? : Thanks in advance, : K.C. Furge Try /dev/rwt0. /dev/rst0 is for SCSI tapes. Robert