Many Thanks Carl!
Sorry it has been so long to reply, due to various committments in
December, I was unable to get back to trying to fix my tape drive
until today. I just went for your suggestion, getting the newer
modutils, and then, everything just worked.
YIPPPEEE! what a relief!
I hope this business about the modutils could be really
emphasized in big red letters in the ftape home page and how to
docs, but, thanks to this list, the answer was supplied. Special
thanks to
Carl J. Nobile
Martin Jacobs
Morgan Miskell
Chris Karakas
especially Carl and Martin who were kind enough to send replies, and the
same clues/answers to similar problems came from Morgan and Chris. and
apologies
if i left anyone out. thanks to you too.
Gentlemen, you are wonderful people to help those of us out here struggling
with this. Carl, you were correct, there are warnings with this package
that it won't work on older kernels but it works just fine with my 2.0.36.
and, big THANKS to Claus for all your selfless ftape work!
regards,
sadhu
............
At 01:02 PM 12/7/98 -0500, Carl J. Nobile wrote:
>Hi Sadhu,
>
>The modules-2.0.0 utility package has some serious flaws and it
>won't work with ftape-internal. Get the newer modutils-2.1.85 that
>is used with kernel 2.1.x. You can get it at:
>
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/
>
>The docs with the package says it won't compile without a
>kernel 2.1.x header files, but it worked with no problems with my
>2.0.35 kernel header files.
>
>Carl
>
>On 06-Dec-98 sadhu wrote:
>> hi folks
>>
>> would really appreciate some help, thanks!
>>
>> here's the story. been struggling with ftape 4.02, and the iomega
>> 2 gig (new-expanded capacity 3.7 gig) tape drive. i have started
>> over from scratch to make SURE i am doing everything according to
>> instructions.
>>
>> 1) recompiled kernel 2.036 without support for qic-80, make sure
>> no ft line in /proc/devices
>>
>> 2) /etc/conf.modules looks like this:
>>
>> alias eth0 3c509
>> alias char-major-27 zftape
>> options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none
>>
>> 3) reboot, to make sure no processes have the tape drive. even
>> powered off, to make *sure*.
>>
>> 4) unpack sources of ftape 4.02 from scratch.
>>
>> 5) only modification to MCONFIG file is to change from a 486
>> to a 586 processor.
>>
>> 6) make, and make install. everything compiles clean, no errors
>> (i saved the output if you care to see it).
>>
>> 7) modprobe zftape. seems fine.
>>
>> 8)/sbin/modprobe ftape-internal
>> Initialization of ftape-internal failed
>> ftape: Device or resource busy
>>
>>
>> WHAT>>?? why does it say device or resource busy? there is no tape
>> in the drive, and the drive hasn't been accessed. according to the
>> faq,
>> this message should only come if a process is still running holding
>> on to the drive, like tar. but the only command run was the
>> modprobe, i
>> haven't
>> tried putting any tape in the drive yet >?????
>>
>> i believe i am following the instructions exactly. at this point i
>> am stuck
>>
>> HELP!
>> thank you!
>> sadhu
>>
>> ps: here's the output of dmesg:
>>
>> ftape v4.02 08/29/98
>>
>> (c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven
>> (c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen
>> (c) 1996-1998 Claus-Justus Heine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>>
>> QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020/Ditto 2GB/MAX floppy tape
>> drives.
>> Compiled for Linux version 2.0.36
>> installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware drive ...
>> ftape_init @ 0x0280b1b0.
>> zftape for ftape v4.02 08/29/98
>> fdc-internal.c: fdc_internal_register @ 0x0284476c.
>> [000] fdc-io.c (fdc_register) - Probing for ftape-internal tape
>> drive
>> slot 1.
>> [001] fdc-io.c (fdc_register) - Probing for ftape-internal tape
>> drive
>> slot 2.
>> [002] fdc-io.c (fdc_register) - Probing for ftape-internal tape
>> drive
>> slot 3.
>
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>E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 07-Dec-98
>Time: 13:01:09
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