-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
I apologize if this is a double posting but my previous post never
received a reply so I am assuming that it was not distributed. The
following is the key error message as a reminder of the original
problem:
>Feb 5 15:19:07 ms265722 kernel: [010] bpck-fdc.c
(bpck_fdc_query_proto) - Got 0x00, expected either 0xc0 or 0x40.
Thanks in advance for any help. The original post follows:
I have been trying different sources to find out exactly what my
Conner CTT800E was and why it doesn't work with 'ftape'. One of the
places I wrote was to the QIC standards web site (http://www.qic.org).
The reply from the head of the driver team at Seagate follows. Unless
I am completely missing the point of what was said the CTT800E should
work with 'ftape.' I am now back to sqaure one, assuming the response
below is correct, what do I need to do to get 'ftape' working with my
drive? I tried the Trakker driver and got the errors posted
previously. I saw no reference to a 'Shuttle' drive and what I got
when I downloaded 'ftape' were 2 drivers (Backpack and Trakker). The
Back Pack drive documentation did mention Microsolutions but nothing
seems to work. Am I
missing some drivers, losing my mind or is my configuration still
messed up? TIA.
>
>I head up the device driver team at Seagate. This drive is a TR-1
drive
>attached to the parallel port (PPT). The drive conforms to QIC-80
(recording
>format) and QIC-117 (command set). The caveat is there is no
"standard" for
>communicating through the PPT to a tape drive. There are 5 different
PPT
>ASICs used by tape drive manufacturers. This particular drive uses a
>MicroSolutions ASIC. So it works like this: send proprietary commands
>through the parallel port to the ASIC, which controls the FDC, which
>accesses the tape drive. If I remember correctly, ftape supports 2
ASICs
>already (Colorado Trakker and Shuttle). The specifications for ASICs
are
>sometimes closely guarded, but you might want to contact
MicroSolutions to
>request specs / source code. One word of caution: supporting a FDC
type PPT
>tape drive is probably the most complex to deal with of any storage
device
>configuration.
>
>Paul Boehler
>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.0.2
iQEVAwUBNtND1m4UNPcD1WilAQHHXAf/e83i2HYw2ChvkrNnaBXoDjiIHKqe5g4n
5Py+WPK0t4SUoxateiIrh0xN3bfTNSpM1bRySw973w+Av5XfU4mmVd+zl/fHuH80
JuR2KD9NTWRkaLrkByORRkFkCLKeW89TYrJiH61WzIuo24JOMh1WuUFg59XXGEpV
b6pXWh24tqMHDmH1qOyOBS8hNT4b/CeyfWRNBUZsdh03FPJlctGaG9VytjwViMfU
WsD0tKMf8Zb2x0y1xH3PcPQnh6w0Dy9N2XMxr6MIx08V41iRbLOwK0ELG3YsqTI8
QAN7OlSVOix8vbDJZksYI7V3WWrvo3cSdPhrUuLSkn6+odqnr9Gjlg==
=wC1o
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------
Dennis Putnam Public Key can be obtained from:
Loganville, Ga. <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/8573>
