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Date:      Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:22:22 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru>
To:        John Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Re: QIC tape drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303181314.5056A-100000@isabase.philol.msu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <15378.888936655.150629.16656@>

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I have tried various combinations in config.
Initially it was as follows:

-----------------------------
controller	fdc0	at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
disk		fd0	at fdc0 drive0
disk		fd2	at fdc0 drive1
tape		ft0	at fdc0 drive2
-----------------------------------

-- and this didn't work. I have know second floppy disk drive, so
I changed it to

-----------------------------
controller	fdc0	at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
disk		fd0	at fdc0 drive0
tape		ft0	at fdc0 drive1
-----------------------------------

-- and also tried

-----------------------------
controller	fdc0	at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
tape		ft0	at fdc0 drive0
tape		ft0	at fdc0 drive1
-----------------------------------

But ft0 is probed in nither configuration. dmesg reports:

-------------
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 flags 0x1 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
--------------

-- and never mentions 'ft0'...

What's to do?

Grigoriy.

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, John Duncan wrote:

> 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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