Jeff,
I strongly suspect you are going to need the Ditto Dash
add-on card. I don't think a standard issue floppy controller
will work with the DittoMax.
You may want to try ftape-4.03-pre2 I had much better success
with it, although I can't say precisely why, I have not
yet compared the version to see what may have caused the joy.
Also be aware that motherboard problems may be an issue, I
could not get anything to work on my P75, yet my P233 cruises
with the exact same kernel and ftape configurations. I think it
was speed related so you *should* be OK.
Do try the new version, I found it much better. Hope this helps.
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On Tue Dec 1 at 15:56 Jeff Adams pondered:
>Hi;
>
>I am trying to get an IOMega Dito Max drive working with ftape.
>The system -
>
>Compaq DeskPro EP serries 400mhz
>IO Mega Ditto Max drive connected to on-board floppy controller
>Single 3.5" 1.44mb floppy as /dev/fd0
>RedHat 5.1 with Kernel 2.0.34
>
>I've downloaded and installed the ftape 4.02 package and
>built the kernel with the supplied patches and ftape support
>as module support.
>
>If I lod ftape, zftape, and ftape-internal I can get a
>status of the drive with mt -f /dev/ftape status.
>But, when I try and do any real i/o to the drive the
>command executes but ultimitly returns an error reading/writing
>the device.
>
>There is no GTA setting in the BIOS as the docs suggest. Also, the only
>bus setting is for bus mastering on the pci bus and I've tried this
>both ways with no effect.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Please email me as I currently do not have access to a news spooler and
>this was the suggested email address to post questions to.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Jeff Adams
>
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