On Sat Jan 16 at 17:3 joerg beschorner pondered:
>Hi all,
>
>I try to use a ditto 2GB tape drive together with a ditto dash
>controller, ftape4.03 and kernel 2.0.33 but with little success. It is
>build in at an Elitegroup P5HX-B mainboard with an AMD K5 133MHz.
>I experienced a strange behavior of the tape drive. Sometimes I can
>execute one or two commands like tar -cvf /dev/nqft0 /etc and ftmt -f
>/dev/nqft0 rewind without error message. After that no further command
>will work. I get the error message
>"Read error on /dev/nqft0: I/O error" and and the message file looks as
>appended.
>Only after booting one or two commands work.
>I tried different base addresses, irq and dma all with the same result
>
>With Windows the tape runs without any error.
>
>Did anyone see this behavior before?
>
>Any advise is appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Joerg
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>Joerg Beschorner * Germany * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joerg,
You probably aren't going to like this answer.
Based on your configuration I suspect that your CPU can not
keep up with the card. Someone on the list, I forget who,
mentioned that you need a P166 for the DASH card to work.
I had very similar poroblems with my card in my P75 machine.
I also have a P233 and placed the card, the drive, and all
the kernel configs on the P233 and the things worked and
has continued to work perfectly. Unfortunately I really
can't help much more than that as I really am not too much
of a low-level hardware type guy.
- Frank P. Bresz }*{
