You need to uncomment the following line in the generic config
file (or add it to your config file), add a ``flags 0x1''
on the fdc line and recompile.
controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 flags 0x1 vector fdintr disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 ^^^^^^^^^ disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 #tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Next, you create a device called /dev/ft0 by going into
/dev and run the following command:
sh MAKEDEV ft0
for the first device. ft1 for a second one and so on.
You will have a device called /dev/ft0, which you can
write to through a special program to manage it called
``ft'' - see the man page on ft for further details.
Versions previous to -current also had some trouble dealing
wiht bad tape media; if you have trouble where ft seems to
go back and forth over the same spot, try grabbing the latest
version of ft from /usr/src/sbin/ft in
-current and try that.