From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 21 15: 0:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AF837B585 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:00:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA65420; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:29:48 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:29:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Pradesh Chanderpaul Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cant get QIC tape to work Message-ID: <20000222092948.D65053@freebie.lemis.com> References: <200002211543.HAA24744@www.geocrawler.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200002211543.HAA24744@www.geocrawler.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 21 February 2000 at 7:43:33 -0800, Pradesh Chanderpaul wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Pradesh Chanderpaul" > Be sure to reply to that address. > > Hi All > > I inherited an Olivetti LXX5010 that had a QIC tape built in which I (naturally) loaded FreeBSD > on. I Understand that the workstations > shipped with them. > > Upon boot it seems that tape drive is seen: > wt0 at 0x300-0x301 irq8 drq1 on isa > wt0 : type > > However, I can't use the device without getting > xx : /dev/wt0: No such file or directory > even after doing MAKEDEV wt0 in /dev. > > Any ideas what I'm missing and how I can get the drive to work. Use /dev/rwt0. If you want to write more than one file to tape, use the non-rewinding variant /dev/nrwt0. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message