On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 05:38:28PM -0800, Stewart Levin wrote:
> Running linux 2.0.21, ftape 4.03-pre-2 with a parallel port
> Iomega Ditto 2GB tape drive and a Canon printer running in
> bj10e emulation mode. Under Windows, both are visible and
> accessible. Under linux, I found I had to disable PPA (lp0)
> support in order for the ftape modules to successfully find
> and access the Ditto drive. Is there any way I can avoid keeping
> two separate kernels around just so I can access the tape unit?
Yes, not both devices at the same time, but one after the other
without changing kernels and even without loading/unloading modules
manually - it's done by kerneld/kmod. Note: I run linux-2.2.4,
ftape-4.x-1999_02_26, modutils-2.1.121, so you don't have (and don't
need) a generic parport support, but I don't know if your modutils work
correctly (insmod -V shouldn't spy out 2.0.0 - everything above
is better, even under kernel 2.0.x). So I can type in lpr -Plj text and
right after that ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status.
/etc/conf.modules:
############# generic parport support ###########
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
############# lp f�r Drucker #####################
pre-install lp modprobe -r bpck-fdc ; modprobe -r zftape ; modprobe -r ftape
######### ftape f�r Ditto max ##########################
alias char-major-27 zftape.o
options ftape.o ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none ft_tracings=4,4,4,4,4
options bpck-fdc ft_fdc_irq=7 ft_fdc_base=0x378
pre-install zftape modprobe -r lp
Cheers, Juergen.
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