Hello
>
> Sunday February 21 1999 22:11, Chris Karakas wrote to Joop Stakenborg:
>
> >> mt -f /dev/qft0 status says:
> >> mt: /dev/qft0: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> I have now tried both ftape-4.02 as well as the latest, 'unstable'
> version, and keep getting Operation not supported by device with my
> Ditto Max.
Download the ftape-tools-1.07 and use ftmt instead of mt. mt
is for SCSI/ATAPI-tapes, ftmt for floppy tapes.
>
> I gave up on the PnP card, since I also have a jumpered card available.
> I set it to IO 360 IRQ5 DMA3, which don't conflict with anything else.
Give us more information. Have a look at the relevant parts
of /var/log/messages. After an access to the floppy tape
three modules loaded should be loaded: ftape, zftape and
ftape-internal. Check with lsmod and make sure that
/etc/conf.modules is correct. I assume that you use
autoloading of modules.
> ...
Good luck!
Martin
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