Frank P. Bresz wrote:
> 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 }*{
Hi Frank,
I think it's more a software problem because it runs on the same machine
under Windows without problems.
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Joerg Beschorner * Germany * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
