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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in1.uu.net!news.MillComm.COM!nistler From: nistler@millcomm.com (John Nistler ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: rft0 not configured -- for /dev/ft0 (qic-80) Date: 31 Aug 1995 04:18:31 GMT Organization: Chaos, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <423d6n$bnn@news.MillComm.COM> References: <417ls1$8u1@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <41cjrn$1nb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <41dfm6$1v7@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.millcomm.com |> >the floppy disk drive 1 is missing. (Sorry, i don't use a floppy tape|> >myself.) The least you should be able to see is the announcement of|> >the drive at boot time. As long as the driver didn't find it there, |> >you don't have a chance later. |> |> Okay, that seems to be the big problem. I've compared floppy kernel Sean, I was having trouble with FreeBSD finding my floppy tape(it's a mountain type). Turns out that if I run my processor slower, it finds the tape. I then looked around the tape device driver code some and notice that during the attach they do not use interups, but poll the device x times with y delay. I increased the y deley by a factor of 10 and everything seems to work. -- John Nistler