Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 21:12:59 -0500 From: Tom Jackson <toj@silverback.gorilla.net> To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QIC-80 Tape Drive Troubles Message-ID: <19980928211259.A3432@TOJ.org> In-Reply-To: <005e01bdeb3c$a8acbd60$0200a8c0@fast1.dfw.com>; from Frank Griffith on Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 07:03:57PM -0500 References: <005e01bdeb3c$a8acbd60$0200a8c0@fast1.dfw.com>
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Check both 'man ft' and 'man mt' On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 07:03:57PM -0500, Frank Griffith wrote: > I have FreeBSD 2.2.7 running on a Pentium computer with a > QIC-80 tape drive daisy chained on the floppy controller. The > tape drive was in a Conner box when I bought it about two > years ago. It has worked fine under DOS, Win95 and WinNT. > FreeBSD recognizes it as device ft0. When I execute this > command line: > > mt -f /dev/ft0 rewind > > The tape drive light comes on and the tape drive whirs for a > few moments and it appears that the tape is rewinding, but > I then get the error message: > > mt: /dev/ft0 rewind: Device not configured > > Can someone tell me what's going on here? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Tom -- IMail Server for Windows NT. Evaluation version. Copyright (c) 1995-98 Ipswitch, Inc. http://www.ipswitch.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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