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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
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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.