Hi Jeff,
> 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.
Can you show us your log messages from /var/log/messages.
That would help us a lot. Maybe your inboard fdc does not
support a data rate above 500Kbps. But we will see.
>
> 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.
>
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Martin Jacobs * Windsbach * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
