Hi,
I'm having trouble with using ftape... My machine is running 2.0.36 kernel
and ftape-4.02.
Ftape compiled and installed no problems, and I have done modprobe ftape,
modprobe zftape and modprobe ftape-internal so that a lsmod looks like:
titan:/usr/local/bin# lsmod
Module Pages Used by
ftape-internal 3 0
zftape 20 0
ftape 34 [ftape-internal zftape] 0
via-rhine 2 2
ppp 5 0
slhc 2 [ppp] 0
yet whenever I try and access the tape device I get a "Device or resource
busy" error, even if I've just rebooted the machine.
titan:/usr/local/bin# ftmt -f /dev/qft0 reten
ftmt: /dev/qft0: Device or resource busy
titan:/usr/local/bin# mt -f /dev/qft0 rewind
/dev/qft0: Device or resource busy
The device files look as follows...
titan:/usr/local/bin# ls -al /dev/qft*
crw------- 1 root root 27, 0 Mar 17 18:06 /dev/qft0
crw------- 1 root root 27, 1 Mar 17 18:06 /dev/qft1
crw------- 1 root root 27, 2 Mar 17 18:06 /dev/qft2
crw------- 1 root root 27, 3 Mar 17 18:06 /dev/qft3
The tape drive in question is a Colorado Jumbo 250meg drive, running off the
floppy drive controller on the motherboard.
Also I have some Verbatim DC2120-Extra tapes (QIC-80-MC), which says 400Mb
uncompressed, but also says its 1000ft... I notice there was support to
format 1100ft tapes, will it work the same on a 1000ft tape?
Thanks,
Chris Lee
