>Thinkpad 385DX, and I have the tape drive plugged into the parallel
>port at the back. I did rebuild the kernel before I started trying to
>get ftape to work (/usr/src/linux exists), but I didn't put the patch
>into the kernel as discussed in ftape.
Hi, you do not need a patch for any floppy driver, for you plug in you tape
drive cable in a parallelport, not a floppy device.
>
>My /etc/conf.modules is
>
> alias char-major-27 zftape
> options ftape ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none
please try and add a third line in /etc/conf.modules:
options bpck_fdc ft_fdc_base=0x378 ft_fdc_irq=7
I myself recognized some new problems with ftape under 2.0.36 in comparison
with 2.0.33, 2.0.34. But the explicit definition of ioport and irq solved
my own problems - maybe it helps for you as well.
>
>And I inserted the modules.
>However, when I try to access the tape using
>
>tar cvf /dev/qft0 - (I chmod'ed the /dev files)
>
>I get an error that the operation isn't supported. I tried other
>things (probing the modules, etc.), and the LCD monitor went blank and
>the system crashed.
>
>
>When I executed
> cd ./modules;. insert
>I got an error that the parport module wasn't installed.
>But the docs say my kernel doesn't support it.
You are right - the parport module is necessary (and useful) only under
2.1.x-kernels. You will have to adjust the insert-script to your own settings.
But apart from that, try and load the modules manually at least for the first
time.
Bye, Juergen.
