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From: fm@.aut.tu-harburg.de (Frank Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: HP-Colorado-Tape Problem
Date: 27 Jul 1996 20:09:56 GMT
Organization: Technische Universtaet Hamburg-Harburg
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Hi anybody,
I just have a problem to use my (new purchased) HP-Colorado T1000 tape
under FreeBSD release 2.1.5. The tape drive is not reliably detected during
boot. The result varies from being undetected at all, through being
detectet as "unknown tape" to "Colorado tape". If there is tape inside
which has been loaded and positioned from DOS it seems to be somewhat
better. But even if the tape drive was found as Colorado any attempt to
write to it fails with:
fdco: output ready timeout
fdco: input ready timeout
...
Needless to say that the tape runs perfectly well with DOS (as far as
DOS is capable of doing anything well).
Trying out different combinations of kernel configurations did not
work as well.
Maybe the problem arises from my other hardware components:
ATAPI-CD, 1 Parallel, 3 Serial, Soundblaster, Mach64
If someone has faced (and solved :-) similar problems, please mail
to me, cause e-mail is faster at my site. I am going to post the
anwers afterwards.
Any help will be gladly appreciated by
Frank
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_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ Frank Meissner
_/ _/ _/_/ _/ TU Hamburg-Harburg
_/_/_/ _/ _/ AG Automatisierungstechnik
_/ _/ _/ tel: ++49 40 72523041
_/ _/ _/ e-mail: meissner@tu-harburg.d400.de
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