Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:29:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Pradesh Chanderpaul <pradesh.chanderpaul@iname.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cant get QIC tape to work Message-ID: <20000222092948.D65053@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200002211543.HAA24744@www.geocrawler.com> References: <200002211543.HAA24744@www.geocrawler.com>
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On Monday, 21 February 2000 at 7:43:33 -0800, Pradesh Chanderpaul wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Pradesh Chanderpaul" <pradesh.chanderpaul@iname.com> > 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 <Wangtek> > > 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
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