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From: emerys@wam.umd.edu (Sean Emery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: rft0 not configured -- for /dev/ft0 (qic-80)
Date: 20 Aug 1995 15:54:41 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Message-ID: <417ls1$8u1@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
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Hello all, please help me out here.

I am trying to mount my new tape drive under FreeBSD, and am having no
luck at all.  I've already configured and recompiled my kernel (with 
support for ft0 on drive 1.)  Rebooting and running ft (floppy based
tape control (8)), replies with 

confucius:290] ft
/dev/rft0: Device not configured

mounting has no effect, either (as you can see, I'm a little new at this):

confucius:295] mount /dev/rft0 /tape
/dev/rft0 on /tape: Block device required

Is that the right device?  What am I doing wrong?  Better yet, what am I
doing right?

Thank you in advance,

-sean.