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From: bob@austin.ibm.com (Bob Willcox)
Subject: Re: Support for Exabyte 8202 tape drive under FreeBSD 2.X
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:17:08 GMT
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In article <3errun$nks@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>,
Clarence W. Wilkerson <wilker@math.purdue.edu> wrote:
>What changes do I need to make to the kernel to support this
>tape drive at SCSI address 4 on a Adaptec 1542B controller?
>I have the kernel sources and have compiled a kernel that will
>boot. However, I need the exabyte sypport.

You should already have it.  I run Exabyte tape drives on two of my
FreeBSD (1.1.5.1, though) systems.  You should be able to run dump,
tar, cpio to/from the drive without problems.  If not, perhaps you
have a SCSI bus/termination or hardware problem.


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