Hi Heinz!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> The version of ftape you are using.
> Ftape v4.02
You'll want the 2.1.xx modutils. They say they won't compile
with 2.0.xx kernels, but in fact they do and the 2.0.0 modutils
have a (serious[1]) bug which is exercised by ftape 4.xx.
[1] as in: ftape won't work for you
> Kernel: 2.0.36-0.7 (RedHat 5.2)
> IBM Aptiva (pentium 133 w/ 80mb RAM)
> Iomega ditto max, with Ditto Dash accelator (4mbps)
>From what I hear-tell, the Ditto MAX[2] is barely workable with
a pentium 166, from the console, with nothing and noone doing
anything on the system. A pentium 266 (AMD K2 300) is what it
needs (as the only application) to make it en'joy'able.
As Tim Jones recommended several times in the past (and he's an
authority on tape drives & co): if you can, try to return the
tape and swap it for an e.g. Seagate TR-4 ATAPI/IDE (TST8000i)
or any other ATAPI or SCSI drive. They are much faster, offer
the same or more space on tape, are reliable and work (and you
won't need ftape for them).
[2] Not the 2GB or the 3200 or the 800, just the Max and Max Plus.
> Problem:
> After installing ftape, and setting up pnp, I issued the following
> command to test the drive:
> ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status
> Output of command:
> /usr/local/bin/ftmt: /dev/qft0: Operation not supported by device
> Jan 23 11:43:49 fh1 kernel: [010] 0 fdc-io.c (fdc_probe) - Iomega
> DASH EZ FDC found.
> Jan 23 11:43:54 fh1 kernel: [011] 0 ftape-ctl.c
> (ftape_activate_drive) - No tape drive found.
> Do you have any suggestions?
The card is found, so the pnp probably worked, but the tape does
not seem to be visible. Did you recheck the cabeling again?
(Yes, it does sound stupid.) Does the tape device react at all
(blinking light, sound)? Is the pnp-setting actually what you
tell the modules when you load them (via /etc/conf.modules or via
insmod --- here is where the modutils 2.0.0-bug is)? If that all
does not help, we may need the output from your module loading.
-Wolfgang
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