: From: Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: I have a IOMEGA DITTO 2 GB internal tape drive connected to
: the floppy disc controller.
:
: I have downloaded the latest ftape (ftape-4.x-1999_02_08.tar.gz),
: compiled the package and installed the modules and the devices.
: I loaded the modules with the insert script in the modules directory.
:
: mt -f /dev/qft0 status says:
: mt: /dev/qft0: Resource temporarily unavailable
:
: [...]
: Feb 19 18:02:29 (none) kernel: [006] 0 fdc-internal.c (_fdc_int_detect) - fdc[0]
:base: 0x0210, irq: 6, dma: 0.
: Feb 19 18:02:29 (none) kernel: [007] 0 ftape-buffer.c (fdc_set_nr_buffers_R4f35ca0e)
:- fdc->ops->alloc(fdc, ((void *) 0)) failed: -12.
You don't have enough continous memory to allocate the 32kB
DMA-Buffers. Have a look at "swapout" in the ftape-tools package.
There is also some info in the ftape manual at:
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/ftape-manual/html/Swapout.html
Jochen
