Using hp surestore dat 24 tape drive with Free BSD 4.8

[Verghese George]

Andreas,
Thanks a lot. It worked!!! I tried the command kldload trm on the
command line  and in the log , I could see the driver being loaded. I
then added the entry in /etc/bootloader.conf file and the driver was 
detected after rebooting.

I also realised that the tape drive was functional straight away. There
was not need for any other driver for the tape drive.

Thanks again

Verghese George


>>> Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn at gmx.net> 10/01/03 9:30 PM >>>
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On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:56, Verghese George wrote:
> Andreas,
> Thanks. The card is still not recognised when booting up. The GENERIC
> kernel does not seem to have an entry
> device trm
> 
> Does it mean that I have to recompile the kernel?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Verghese George
> 
Hi, 

I do not know exactly if FreeBSD 4.x has a trm module, but you might
first try to do 
kldload trm
If that does work (i.e. print some success messages), you can add
trm_load="yes" 
to your /boot/loader.conf file to have the trm module loaded at boot
time.

If the trm.ko module is not available, yes, you need to recompile your
kernel as described in the handbook.

Regards, 
Andreas

> >>> Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn at gmx.net> 09/30/03 8:33 PM >>>
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 07:20, Verghese George wrote:
> > Could someone help me with this problem?
> > I connected the hp surestore dat 24 drive with Free BSD 4.8 . It has
a
> > Ultra SCSI DC-315U drive (Tekram technology Co. Ltd). This card is
not
> > recognised by the system. Is there a driver I can use with this
card? 
> I
> > got  dc395_trm.tar.gz , untarred and unzipped it and  copied
> > dc395x_trm.c and dc395x_trm.h to  /usr/src/sys/pci directory (as per
> the
> > instructions at the website).   I also edited
> > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and gave a device name tekram_trm0.
> When
> > I tried to recompile the kernel, this name was not recognised. 
> > 
> > Am I following the right procedure?  Can somebody advise me?
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Verghese George
> 
> Hi,
> 
> according to the trm(4) man page, the Tekram DC-315U should be
supported
> in 4.8:
>
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=trm&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+4.8-RELEASE&format=html
>