On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 05:32:30PM +0100, Bernhard Erdmann wrote:
> > Do you know where you found that info? I'm getting tons of I/O errors
> > when I backup (so many that 'messages' filled the disk and my machine
> > just about wet itself. luckily linux doesn't crash even when you do
> > stupid things). My primary machine is a P90, so I'd like to have
> > another excuse to upgrade ;) (not that linux doesn't run like a champ
> > on a P90, but I like to ray-trace).
>
>
> My Ditto Max runs at 2 Mbps, maybe your data transfer rate is too high.
>
> $ cat /etc/conf.modules
> alias eth0 ne2k-pci
> alias net-pf-4 off
> alias net-pf-5 off
> alias char-major-107 3dfx
> alias char-major-27 zftape
> options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none
> ft_tracings=3,3,3,3,3
> options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x210 ft_fdc_dma=0
> ft_fdc_threshold=16 ft_fdc_rate_limit=2000
> pre-install ftape-internal /usr/local/bin/swapout 15
Mine is a parallel port Ditto Max. Can you use ft_fdc_rate_limit
for those? (OK, so I'm just being too lazy to rtfm this minute...)
Rob
