From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 12:22:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA11296 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 May 1995 12:22:47 -0700 Received: from wn1.sci.kun.nl (wn1.sci.kun.nl [131.174.8.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA11288 for ; Wed, 3 May 1995 12:22:41 -0700 Received: from studs.sci.kun.nl by wn1.sci.kun.nl via studs.sci.kun.nl [131.174.124.5] with ESMTP id VAA17843 (8.6.10/2.9); Wed, 3 May 1995 21:22:32 +0200 From: William Wanders Received: by studs.sci.kun.nl id SAA21742 (8.6.10/2.1); Wed, 3 May 1995 18:34:25 +0200 Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 18:34:25 +0200 Message-Id: <199505031634.SAA21742@studs.sci.kun.nl> To: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: <9505030753.AA18377@macon.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) Subject: Re: rft0 not recognized for Conner TSM 420R / QIC-80 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 09:53:21 +0200 From: "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just found a dirt-cheap TSM420R drive, and put it in as a third drive. (Needless to say, it works just fine under DOS.) Unfortunately, it doesn't get recognized either by my kernel setup or by the GENERIC kernel. I'm running 2.0-950412-SNAP. I don't even see a "ft0 not found" or some such message at boot time. Only when I try to access /dev/rft0 or /dev/ft0, I get "device not configured". What do I need to do to investigate further? Any help would be much appreciated. try to add 'flags 1' to the line with 'controller fdc0 ...' this should enable the probing for youre tape drive. A little question: What tapes do you use ? QIC-80 (250MB) or QIC-QW (420MB) ? If you use the new QIC-QW tapes are they easily available? I can't seem to get my hands on those new tapes :( allways SOLD OUT !!! William Wanders.