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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:50:55 -0500
From: John Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: QIC tape drive
To: <grg@philol.msu.ru>
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Reply-To: John Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu>
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Doug White:
>
>I don't know exactly the model number of my QIC drive,
>but it's also 250MB. Windows NT detects it as 'QIC-117'.
>Is it possible to use it in FreeBSD?

Hmm. NT calls it QIC-117 because that's the command protocol
for all QIC-compliant drives. What do the lines that pertain
to the ft device (ft, fdc) look like in your config file? I
had a non-standard deck that didn't work with FreeBSD but
was probed fine. 

-John

>
>On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Grigoriy Strokin wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm having problems trying to use QIC tape drive for FDD controller in
>> > FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE. Device ft0 is specified in kernel,
>> > but it seems that FDD controller driver probes on startup
>> > only those drives that are set in BIOS setup. So, it
>> > only tests fd0, and says OK, but does NOT event try to test
>> > ft0.

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