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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!emerys From: emerys@wam.umd.edu (Sean Emery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: rft0 not configured -- for /dev/ft0 (qic-80) Date: 22 Aug 1995 20:45:58 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 33 Message-ID: <41dfm6$1v7@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> References: <417ls1$8u1@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <41cjrn$1nb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: exp1.wam.umd.edu In article <41cjrn$1nb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >Sean Emery <emerys@wam.umd.edu> wrote: > > > >I am trying to mount my new tape drive under FreeBSD, and am having no > >luck at all. I've already configured and recompiled my kernel (with > >support for ft0 on drive 1.) > >Running the `ft' command was right. > >I'm not sure what you've done wrong with configuring the ft device in >the kernel; the GENERIC kernel should already have all you need. >Maybe you have to declare it as ``drive 2'' (as opposed to 1), even if >the floppy disk drive 1 is missing. (Sorry, i don't use a floppy tape >myself.) The least you should be able to see is the announcement of >the drive at boot time. As long as the driver didn't find it there, >you don't have a chance later. Okay, that seems to be the big problem. I've compared floppy kernel configurations with someone else and they are the same as GENERIC. I am unsure if I have to play around with the jumper settings on the back of the drive. Checking into that as soon as I get home. . . >Which tape drive are you using? It's an Iomega insider 420. It advertised QIC-80 compatibility so that's why I bought it. I really did agonize over the choice because of compat- ibility concerns. If nothing happens with altered jumper settings, I will return the drive and save up for SCSI. Thanks, -sean.