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From: kfurge@ysi.com (Kenneth Furge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Tape drive trouble
Date: 27 Jan 1995 14:25:29 GMT
Organization: YSI, Inc.
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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