[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Karakas) writes:
> Tim Jones from EST has got Ditto Max working with ftape 4.02, but, he
> wrote to the list, you need at least a Pentium 166 MHz (no problem for
> you) AND the Ditto DASH DX card to get at least a rate of 2000kbps.
I have got the Ditto Max with the Dash DX card working with ftape-4.03-pre2
on a P133. I use isapnp to configure it, and auto load with the settings
in conf.modules (see end of message).
The only problem I have with 4.03-pre2 is that I get inconsistent
tape parameters on one particular tape (see another posting of mine to
the list).
I started the data rate at 3000 to reduce overrun errors, but now I look
at the logs again, it looks as this gets stepped down to 2000 (which
explains why 4.02 wouldn't work). I'll changes the ft_fdc_rate_limit
to 2000 for my machine.
Here is a small patch (complete untested!) so the log message gets the
changed data rate logged (rather than needing to crawl back through
the logs).
--- ftape-rw.c-dist Thu Dec 3 08:24:56 1998
+++ ftape-rw.c Thu Dec 3 08:25:39 1998
@@ -1005,8 +1005,9 @@
if (ftape_half_data_rate(ftape) >= 0) {
TRACE(ft_t_warn,
- "reduced datarate because "
- "of excessive overrun errors");
+ "reduced datarate to %d because "
+ "of excessive overrun errors",
+ ftape->data_rate);
}
ftape->bad_bus_timing = 1;
Configuration used
# iomega 4Mb/S PNP tape controller
(CONFIGURE IOM0040/-1 (LD 0
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0370))
(INT 0 (IRQ 6 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 3))
(ACT Y)
))
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none
options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x370 ft_fdc_irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=3 \
ft_fdc_rate_limit=3000
pre-install ftape-internal /sbin/swapout 16
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