Hi Carl,
thanks for your EMail. Sorry it has been a long time for reply, I was
staying in hospital for a few days.
> You will also need to install the following:
> 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.
I get it; they compiled without any error :-)
After installing the new modutils I shutdown Linux and reboot the
computer.
> From your lsmod listing you don't have one of the drive specific
> drivers loaded. Depending on which drive you have you need to
> load either bpck-fdc.o, trakker.o, or internal.o. Unless you have
> tapes that used zft-compressor.o from an old release of ftape you
> won't need it since ftape no longer can compress data.
I insert in the file /etc/conf.modules the following lines:
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,bpck-fdc:none,none,none
It should automatically load the needed modules by use. After the
command "ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status (a tape is loaded) i get the
message: ftmt: /dev/qft0: No such device or address.
lsmod shows now:
zftape 20 0 (autoclean)
ftape 35 [zftape] 0 (autoclean)
Hmm ..don't work - unloading the modules ftape and zftape (rmmod) and
a new experiment. Now I load the modules with modprobe:
server:/etc # modprobe zftape
server:/etc # modprobe ftape-internal
server:/etc # lsmod
Module Pages Used by
ftape-internal 3 0
zftape 20 0
ftape 35 [ftape-internal zftape] 0
It seems ok, no error-message occurs :)
And now: server:/etc # ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status
It works and works and works... till I stop it with ctrl-c :(
ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 reten works fine. The tapedrive start to rewind
the tape. After finishing the prompt comes back. But no backup is
possible. Without tape-cassette "status" shows:
Es handelt sich um ein Conner TSM850R/1700R/TST3200R
Floppybandlaufwerkm (Laufwerkscode = 0x0156) Bandlaufwerksstatus =
0x00e35109 Generischer Laufwerksstatus = 0x00040000 (Im Einzelnen: *
door open (no tape) * ) Fehlercode = 0x00001b1f Residuum
= 0 Dateinummer = -1 Blocknummer = -1
A look in /proc/ftape shows about five directories:0, 1, 2, 3 and
driver. In /proc/0/cartridge I can read the datas of the tape !?!
segments : 102
tracks : 20
length : 0ft
formatted : yes
writable : yes
QIC spec. : QIC-3020
fmt-code : 0
If I take out the cassette, the file contains, that no tape is
loaded.
I don't now, what's wrong. tar or kbackup makes no backup. The
tapedrive don't work.
Sadhunathan has more luck ;)
Servus
Peter
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