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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 1995 15:51:34 +0100 (BST)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
To:        mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Colorado Jumbo 250MB ft, and FreeBSD 2.0R
Message-ID:  <199504031451.PAA13134@isl.cf.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950403011112.23548A-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> from "Marc Ramirez" at Apr 3, 95 01:17:57 am

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In reply to Marc Ramirez who said
> 
> I can't seem to get these two to work.  The tape is never recognized.
> 
> The configuration is:
> 
> Gateway 2000 4DX2-66  with ISA/PCI
> 1 730MB (E?)IDE hard drive
> 1 1.44MB floppy
> 1 IDE CD-ROM  (not expecting to work)
> 1 Colorado Jumbo 250 floppy tape 
> FreeBSD 2.0-R
> 
> I have heard rumors that 1) you need two FDD's to have a floppy tape, and 
> 2) you need to pass flags 0x1 to the floppy driver.  I have tried 2) to 
> no avail.

Well, if it's any consolation I can't get my Jumbo 250 to work either.
Rod, you said you had it working, what was you're configuration?

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