Thanks.
Carl, Nothing is ever stupid. As for the tapes they all say Ditto max and
the drive is "supposed" to work with all three tapes.
Josh,
Thanks for your help I got the furthest with your replies.
I want to thank everyone else for their help. I have thrown ion the towel
for now. I am removing the drive and installing it in a dos machine to see
if it works. I took a future domain SCSI controller off my bench and threw
in an Exebyte drive I had (it wouldn't work in a customers NT box). Changed
an IRQ did a modprobe fdomain.o and within seconds I could talk to the tape
drive on st0. I got the same error message I did on NT which confirmed the
dat drive is bad but at least I can put in a SCSI drive and be done with
it. You can only RTFM and test for so long. It is time to fish and not cut
bait.
Thanks again to the list.
Again thanks for all of the help.At 08:35 PM 1/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
>----------------------------------
>E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 18-Jan-99
>Time: 20:34:00
>----------------------------------
John J. Boris, Sr. Boris Computer Services/ONLine Services
email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
bbs: The Bleeding Edge 609-858-9221
