On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:11:06PM +0000, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> I have just installed Red Hat Linux 6.0. Previously I ran
> 3.04d ftape package successfully with Red Hat 5.0 on this
> machine.
Hello,
- make sure, ftape is n o t compiled into the kernel (when compiling
a new kernel, first step is make xconfig: And there must not be enabled
"ftape support".
- under kernel 2.2.x it is necessary to use those "unstable" drivers
that can be found at
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/unstable/
and they are quite stable (contrary to the directory name). This will
solve your "struct no member" problem.
>
> I have a Conner (Seagate) 1700 MB Internal Minicartridge
> Drive on a Conner (Seagate) CTC-2Mb 2Mb Floppy Controller.
> The controller is at I/O Address = 370h - 377h, DMA Channel
> = 2, Interrupt Request Level (IRQ) = 6 (this is the default
> and has not been changed).
(...)
>
> # Load ftape/zftape automatically
>
> alias char-major-27 zftape
> pre-install ftape /sbin/swapout 32
> # Try to set CTC-2Mb floppy controller
> # and
> # Try to reduce overruns: can be [1-16]: higher: less
> overruns
> options ftape ft-fdc-base0x370 ft-fdc-irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=2
> ft-fdc-threshold=16
at least as far as those unstable drivers are concerned I would guess,
/etc/conf.modules should look like this
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none ft_tracings=4,4,4,4,4
options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x370 ft_fdc_irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=2
...assuming your values are correct. Anyone who knows better,
please correct me, as I am not familiar with that seagate thing.
(...)
> Hat over three days ago, but they have made no suggestions.
...no surprise, unfortunately...
>
> 2.) I tried to sign up for this mailing list, but get no
> response from the mailing list.
Well, at least, we got your mail...
> I never get a response.
>
Hm, maybe you post your mail from at home, have set up "masquerading" regarding
your sendmail, but this is not enough. Not only the header's "From: " has to
be a valid email address (CS in sendmail.cf - from memory, so may be wrong),
but also the "From " of the envelope must contain a reachable email address
(Mail reader mutt, for example: Muttrc:
set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi"
At least this was the problem I myself stumbled over, but only with
linux-tape, not with any other mailing list.
Bye, Juergen.
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