Anyone familiar with setting up the Trakker tape drive?
The drive is on parallel port 0x378, irq 7
I've "installed" the ftape-4.03-pre-2 package, along with
the tools and doc packages. The ftape and trakker modules
seem to load without complaint, but :
~# mt -f /dev/qft0 status
mt: /dev/qft0: Operation not supported by device.
Ditto on /dev/qft{1,2,3}. :(
In /etc/conf.modules:
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=trakker,none,none,none
options trakker ft_fdc_base=0x378 ft_fdc_irq=0x7
Debian 2.1, Kernel 2.0.36
ftape v4.03-pre-2 11/05/98
(c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven
(c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen
(c) 1996-1998 Claus-Justus Heine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020/Ditto 2GB/MAX floppy tape drives.
Compiled for Linux version 2.0.36
installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware drive ...
ftape_init @ 0x030331b0.
trakker.c: trakker_register @ 0x030591d8
[000] fdc-io.c (fdc_register) - Probing for trakker tape drive slot 0.
[001] 0 trakker.c (trakker_speedtest) - delay: 0 PS2.
[002] 0 ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer)
- buffer nr #1 @ 025a3f18, dma area @ 0305b000.
[003] 0 ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer)
- buffer nr #2 @ 0250d618, dma area @ 0305b000.
[004] 0 ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer)
- buffer nr #3 @ 0250d718, dma area @ 0305b000.
[005] 0 ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer)
- buffer nr #4 @ 0250d598, dma area @ 0305b000.