floppy tape drive (Colorado 1400)

[Matt Gostick]

I'm having a difficult time with my floppy tape drive... I've never set
it up on FreeBSD before (or any other tape drive). I using 3.4 STABLE
as of a week or so ago.

I added the following to my config file and recompiled

controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2
disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 1

I don't have a floppy drive in this computer... but if I don't have fd0
in the file I get error when compiling the kernel.

dmesg | grep "relevent info" show this:

fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in

(the two fd0 lines are not a typo)

When I try and run ft I get the following error:

ft: /dev/rft0: Device not configured

Although in /dev I have:

brw-rw---- 2 root operator 2, 32 Mar 4 20:41 ft0
brw-rw---- 2 root operator 2, 32 Mar 4 20:41 ft0a
crw-rw---- 2 root operator 9, 32 Mar 4 20:41 rft0
crw-rw---- 2 root operator 9, 32 Mar 4 20:41 rft0a

Anyone have this type of drive working? or know if it's possible?

Thanks,
--
Matt Gostick <ma...@crazylogic.net>
http://www.crazylogic.net/~matt

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