Hi John,
I know this might sound stupid, but it looks like a problem I had
about 2 years ago when I bought the wrong tapes for my Ditto 3200.
Carl
On 18-Jan-99 John J. Boris, Sr. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I upgraded my machine to a Pentium 233Mhz since most of you that have
> helped said the Cyrix PR150+ wasn't fast enough to handle the Ditto
> Dash
> card. So here I am. I have the system back up. Compiled
> ftape-4.03-pre-2,
> isapnptools 1.17, the latest modutils. I can retention the tape,
> eject the
> tape and get status. I have tried 5 different cartridges, 3 7gb
> sizes, one
> 1.8gb size and one 2.5gb size. All tell me they aren't formatted. Oh
> yeah I
> have ftape-tools 1.07 installed.
> Am I missing something?
> the isapnp goes fine and when I do:
> . insert
>
> from the ftape directory I don't get any error messages. The console
> screen
> says it is installing a QIC-117 drive.
>
> I hope this can be salvaged if not I guess I am going to move onto
> the next
> option an IDE Tape or SCSI Tape.
>
> Thanks to all of you who have helped in this. Below is the last set
> of
> messages from
> ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status
>
> Jan 18 17:32:39 sounds kernel: [067] 0 ftape-ctl.c
> (ftape_get_drive_status_Rfce64bdc) - error status set.
> Jan 18 17:32:40 sounds kernel: [068] 0 ftape-io.c
> (ftape_report_error_R1e3db2bb) - errorcode: 38.
> Jan 18 17:32:41 sounds kernel: [069] 0 ftape-ctl.c
> (ftape_get_drive_status_Rfce64bdc) - status: new cartridge.
> Jan 18 17:32:42 sounds kernel: [070] 0 ftape-ctl.c
> (ftape_init_drive) -
> Warning: tape is not formatted !.
> Jan 18 17:32:43 sounds kernel: [071] 0 ftape-io.c
> (ftape_report_configuration) - Unknown Travan tape type detected.
> Jan 18 17:32:43 sounds kernel: [072] 0 ftape-ctl.c
> (ftape_init_drive) -
> post QIC-117B drive @ 2000 Kbps.
> Jan 18 17:32:44 sounds kernel: [073] 0 ftape-io.c
> (ftape_report_error_R1e3db2bb) - errorcode: 38.
> Jan 18 17:32:45 sounds kernel: [074] 0 ftape-read.c
> (ftape_read_header_segment_Rb3ab1535) - Cartridge is not formatted.
> Jan 18 17:32:45 sounds kernel: [075] 0 zftape-read.c
> (zft_read_header_segments)
> -ftape_read_header_segment_Rb3ab1535(zftape->ftape, zftape->hseg_buf)
> failed: -5.
>
> I am out of tapes (5 of them). Also there is a white plastic arm on
> the
> tray. Should that be moved over the cartridge? I have tried this so
> many
> ways I am starting to see these things in my dreams.
>
> Thanks again.
> I am going to post this to the list to see if anyone else has an
> idea.
>
>
> John J. Boris, Sr. Boris Computer Services/ONLine Services
> email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> bbs: The Bleeding Edge 609-858-9221
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E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18-Jan-99
Time: 20:34:00
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