I have Suse Linux 5.3.
Kernel 2.0.36
I just installed ftape-4.03-pre-2. Everything went fine.
Only thing: whenever I give a command to Ftape there shows up the
following in /var/log/messages:
May 17 19:49:46 vitzlipu kernel: [029] 0 ftape-io.c
(ftape_report_operation) - No acknowledge after 300 msec. (9
6 iter). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is this a kernelproblem?
May 17 19:49:47 vitzlipu kernel: [037] 0 ftape-io.c
(ftape_report_raw_drive_status) - report_operation failed aft
er 4 trials. ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
^^ ^ ^^^^^^
May 17 19:49:47 vitzlipu kernel: [038] 0 ftape-io.c
(ftape_wakeup_drive) - ftape_report_raw_drive_status(ftape, &s
tatus) failed: -5.
^^^^^^^^^^
May 17 19:49:47 vitzlipu kernel: [039] 0 ftape-ctl.c
(ftape_activate_drive) - known wakeup method failedTrying all
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the (four) others ....
^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^
May 17 19:50:53 vitzlipu kernel: [040] 0 ftape-ctl.c
(ftape_get_drive_status) - error status set.
May 17 19:50:53 vitzlipu kernel: [041] 0 ftape-io.c
(ftape_report_error) - errorcode: 26.
^^^^^^^^^
What do these kernelmesages mean?
Loading of the modules with modprobe is just perfect. I get no
errors there.
May 17 19:41:21 vitzlipu kernel: ftape v4.03-pre-2 11/05/98
May 17 19:41:21 vitzlipu kernel:
May 17 19:41:21 vitzlipu kernel: (c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven
May 17 19:41:21 vitzlipu kernel: (c) 1995-1996 Kai
Harrekilde-Petersen
May 17 19:41:21 vitzlipu kernel: (c) 1996-1998 Claus-Justus Heine
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
May 17 19:41:21 vitzlipu kernel:
May 17 19:41:21 vitzlipu kernel: QIC-117 driver for
QIC-40/80/3010/3020/Ditto 2GB/MAX floppy tape drives.
May 17 19:41:21 vitzlipu kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.0.36
May 17 19:41:21 vitzlipu kernel: installing QIC-117 floppy tape
hardware drive ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
May 17 19:41:21 vitzlipu kernel: ftape_init @ 0x068121b0.
May 17 19:41:46 vitzlipu kernel: zftape for ftape v4.03-pre-2
11/05/98
May 17 19:41:46 vitzlipu kernel: (c) 1996, 1997 Claus-Justus Heine
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
May 17 19:41:46 vitzlipu kernel: vfs interface for ftape floppy tape
driver.
May 17 19:41:46 vitzlipu kernel: Support for QIC-113 compatible
volume table.
May 17 19:41:46 vitzlipu kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.0.36
May 17 19:41:46 vitzlipu kernel: [000] zftape-init.c (zft_init) -
zft_init @ 0x0684498c.
May 17 19:41:46 vitzlipu kernel: [001] zftape-init.c (zft_init) -
installing zftape VFS interface for ftape driver .
...^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
May 17 19:42:09 vitzlipu kernel: fdc-internal.c:
fdc_internal_register @ 0x0684c7e4.
May 17 19:42:09 vitzlipu kernel: [002] fdc-io.c (fdc_register) -
Probing for ftape-internal tape drive slot 0.
May 17 19:42:09 vitzlipu kernel: [003] 0 fdc-internal.c
(_fdc_int_detect) - called with count 0.
May 17 19:42:09 vitzlipu kernel: [004] 0 fdc-internal.c
(_fdc_int_detect) - fdc[0] base: 0x03f0, irq: 6, dma: 2.
May 17 19:42:09 vitzlipu kernel: [005] 0 ftape-buffer.c
(add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #1 @ 050c3598, dma area @ 00ff00
00.
I wouldn't ask if the ftape-tests didn't turn out negativ as far
as filemark-support is concerned.
I cannot append archives...
It's because of that same behaviour in the past that I finally upgraded from
kernel 2.0.35 to 2.0.36 - and from ftape-4.02 to ftape-4.03-pre-2.
My floppy-tapedrive works fine under Windows.
What con I do?
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