Hi Manfred,
> ...
> i downloaded your software, edited the mconfig where i took the data's
> from win95. that is 0x360, irq6, dma2.
This may be ok, but some older m/b may have trouble using the
same IRQ and DMA as the internal fdc. I have configured ditto
dash to it's own IRQ and DMA and it works fine.
>
> i did a make, a make install and installed the ftape-tools-1.07 as
> suggested in the install file.
> ...
> Mar 6 22:53:26 (none) kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> Mar 6 22:53:26 (none) kernel: FDC 0 is an 8272A
> Mar 6 22:53:26 (none) kernel: md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> Mar 6 22:53:26 (none) kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
> Mar 6 22:53:26 (none) kernel: scsi : detected total.
> Mar 6 22:53:26 (none) kernel: Partition check:
> Mar 6 22:53:26 (none) kernel: hda: hda1
> Mar 6 22:53:26 (none) kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < >
> Mar 6 22:53:26 (none) kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Mar 6 21:53:30 (none) kernel: Adding Swap: 72288k swap-space (priority -1)
> Mar 6 21:53:32 (none) kernel: ftape v4.02 08/29/98
> Mar 6 21:53:32 (none) kernel:
> Mar 6 21:53:32 (none) kernel: (c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven
> Mar 6 21:53:32 (none) kernel: (c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen
> Mar 6 21:53:32 (none) kernel: (c) 1996-1998 Claus-Justus Heine
>([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Mar 6 21:53:32 (none) kernel:
> Mar 6 21:53:32 (none) kernel: QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020/Ditto 2GB/MAX
>floppy tape drives.
> Mar 6 21:53:32 (none) kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.0.36
> Mar 6 21:53:32 (none) kernel: installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware drive ...
> Mar 6 21:53:32 (none) kernel: ftape_init @ 0x028151b0.
> Mar 6 21:53:34 (none) init: Entering runlevel: 3
The prvious looks like if you have compiled ftape into your
kernel. This is wrong. Look at the documentation. You should
compile your kernel without (_Yes_)ftape support.
>
> later
>
> Mar 6 22:24:13 (none) modprobe: warning: alias loop resolving "char-major-27"
> Mar 6 22:24:13 (none) modprobe: can't locate module char-major-27
> Mar 6 22:24:57 (none) modprobe: warning: alias loop resolving "char-major-27"
> Mar 6 22:24:57 (none) modprobe: can't locate module char-major-27
> Mar 6 22:25:31 (none) modprobe: warning: alias loop resolving "char-major-27"
> Mar 6 22:25:31 (none) modprobe: can't locate module char-major-27
> Mar 6 22:53:26 (none) -- MARK --
This seems to be an error in your /etc/conf.modules file.
Martin
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