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Date:      Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:36:28 +0300 (MSK)
From:      grg@bsd.philol.msu.ru
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: QIC tape drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.980303153437.17408B-100000@ns.philol.msu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302130546.19148N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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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?

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.
> 
> What brand of tape do you have?
> 
> Only QIC-40/80 tapes are supported (250mb).
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 


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