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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Floppy Tape Drive with 2.1.0?? Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:17:27 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <54vue7$pqf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <54o85c$253@walt.ee.pdx.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) wrote: > I'm attempting to get a floppy tape drive going on a > Pentium machine running FreeBSD 2.1.0. > > I looked in the FAQ and added the line to the config > file, rebuilt and installed. > After re-booting, the kernel recognized the floppy drive > but not the floppy tape (ft0). Floppy tape support is a little weak. What kind of drive do you have? It's most likely unsupported. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)