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From: gryphon@msgi.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: floppy tape config, take 2
Date: 24 Jun 1995 16:12:21 -0400
Organization: MSG, Inc. (Burlington, MA)
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Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> wrote:
>>>I'm using a Colorado Jumbo 250, so that should be added to the list
>>>of those tape drives which need the flag.
J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>>It's not supposed to need it, so it's perhaps an oversight on my side.
>>I'll try to remember it and look at it again; please get back to me on
>>this in private mail say in about 4 weeks of time or so.
>
>Hmm, i've just looked into it. Provided you're really running 2.0.5,
>i'm at a loss.
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>The ``flags 1'' in the fdc line is now only needed for owners of an
>Insight tape (perhaps there aren't any? Mine is disfunctional). All
>other probes are safe wrt. to the motor-control line of floppy disk
>drives. Document the flag in LINT finally.
>
>Is your tape (erroneusly) announced as an Insight tape?
Nope, shows up as a Colorado. I've verified the behavior (and
need for the flag setting) using both -c and a new kernel.
-coranth
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