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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!cs.uoregon.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!sirius.cs.pdx.edu!daver 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 Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR Lines: 27 Message-ID: <552rur$ht9@walt.ee.pdx.edu> References: <54o85c$253@walt.ee.pdx.edu> <54vue7$pqf@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.cs.pdx.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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? : -- : cheers, J"org : joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE : Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)