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From: fn@waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Frank Nobis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Installing a tape drive with 386bsd
Keywords: 386bsd, tape, io-address
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Date: 19 Oct 92 15:06:08 GMT
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In article <BwCr9o.Bs0@ns1.nodak.edu>, tjon@plains.NoDak.edu (Christopher
C. Tjon) writes:
|> I just installed 386bsd tonite for the first time.  I really liked what
|> I
|> saw.  I had one problem though.  I could not figure out how to install
|> my
|> tape unit.  It is:
|> 
|> controller: wangtek qic02 type
|> address: 0x288
|> irq: 5
|> dma: 1
|> 
|> can anyone explain how I install this drive please?

I think you should jumper your controller to address 0x300. This ist the
default
value as in the GENERICISA config file. Or the other way, you have to
recompile
the kernel with your value of 0x288 if there is a good reason for this.

Take a look into the config files in /sys/i386/conf.

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