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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!halley.pi.net!news From: Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Floppy Tape Drive with 2.1.0?? Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:07:22 +0100 Organization: NederWare Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32726F7A.7185@pobox.com> References: <54o85c$253@walt.ee.pdx.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 145.220.197.40 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) To: Dave Roethig <daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> Dave Roethig wrote: > > I'm attempting to get a floppy tape drive going on a > Pentium machine running FreeBSD 2.1.0. > > I looked in the FAQ and added the line to the config > file, rebuilt and installed. > After re-booting, the kernel recognized the floppy drive > but not the floppy tape (ft0). > > What am I doing incorrectly?? You probably forgot the flags setting. Add flags 1 to the controller fdc0 line (it's somewhere in the manual). Anyway here my line: controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio flags 1 irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr -- Groetjes, Berend. (-: email: berend@pobox.com compuserve: 100120,3121