From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 07:23:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25701 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 07:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isabase.philol.msu.ru (isabase.philol.msu.ru [193.232.118.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25681 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 07:23:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grg@philol.msu.ru) Received: from localhost (grg@localhost) by isabase.philol.msu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA05071; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:22:22 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from grg@philol.msu.ru) X-Authentication-Warning: isabase.philol.msu.ru: grg owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:22:22 +0300 (MSK) From: Grigoriy Strokin To: John Duncan cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: QIC tape drive In-Reply-To: <15378.888936655.150629.16656@> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message