Hi Everyone,
Thanks to all who replied to my earlier email about the Exabyte Eagle.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid I'm simply not knowledgable enough to get it
to work. I've read everything I could find on ftape, but I must be
missing something. It all seems so disconnected (the INSTALL, README,
and the HOWTO), that I'm quite sure I'm probably missing something
simple. I've managed to compile ftape successfully (one warning that
recurred over and over, but I'm quite sure it was benign). I've tried
the insert script in modules, and that seems to work OK. I do get an
error having to do with the parallel port line of insert, but I don't
have a parallel port drive anyway, so I wasn't worried about it. I've
even tried installing line by line, changing the 0x360 to 0x370. I
didn't try different DMA channels or IRQ's because I got these from
Win95 where it works quite well.
I simply can't get anything out of it.
I tried to do a rewind, and I hear a short hum, like the tape is
spinning a little bit, but then I get an error that the device is not
configured (/dev/ftape which is a link to something else which I
forget). Once it came back and said it was busy. Don't know how that
happened.
I'm stumped. What should I try? Is there something which might tell me
what's going wrong?
Thanks,
Skip Egley
