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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Floppy tape config...
Date: 13 Jun 1995 12:57:12 +0200
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Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@msgi.com> wrote:
>I notice that the kernel supports "ft0" which looks like a floppy
>tape drive. Two questions.
It actually is.
>
>Can this be a QIC-80 (a la Colorado Trakker) type tape drive?
Not sure. There are 1001 different ft models around; Colorado is
among the supported, i don't know anything about `Trakker'.
>The entry in the sys/i386/conf/GENERIC lists "ft0 at fdc0 drive 2".
>I this correct regardless of how many floppy drives are on the
>machine? In other words, if I just have a 3.5 and the tape, would
>the tape be listed as "ft0 at fdc0 drive 1"?
It should be correct. Depending on the kernel version you're working
with, your kernel might require the "flags 0x1" clause in the line for
"fdc0" in order to perform the floppy tape probes. Recent kernels do
require this flag only for "Insight" tapes which are special in that
they require the drive motor line to be asserted, and hence the probe
for those tapes tended to spam floppy disk drives on several machines.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)