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From: daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Floppy Tape Drive with 2.1.0??
Date: 28 Oct 1996 17:53:31 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: 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).

: Floppy tape support is a little weak.  What kind of drive do you have?
: It's most likely unsupported.


It's a HP Colorado T1000.

There is only one floopy drive in the machine.  Does it need to
have two drives to see the floppy tape?


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: cheers, J"org

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