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From: rgaine@pilot.njin.net (Richard C. Gaine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Exabyte 8205 on FreeBSD
Date: 21 Nov 1995 19:03:36 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
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Message-ID: <48tpco$4j4@pilot.njin.net>
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Summary: exabyte
Keywords: tape drive


I am running FreeBSD 2.0 and I have an Exabyte 8205.  The drive does not 
seem to be supported by the kernel.  Is there a kernel patch that I can 
install, or do I have to go to a new version?  The drive does work, but 
it is real slow and the mt command will not return drive status telling 
me that it is an unknown tape drive.

Please eMail answers.

Rick Gaine
rgaine@pilot.njin.net