Juergen Leising wrote (in part):
> > 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-base0x_370 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.
Your response helped me find the problem with the /etc/conf.modules file: I had
ft-fdc-base instead of ft_fdc_base in there. 8-( After many hours work, they looked
the same to tired eyes.
I had to produce a /usr/src/linux/.config file to get the ftape ftape-4.x-1999_04_25
to compile, since I had never installed the kernel source, and the kernel source rpm
does not include the .config file used to build my kernel.
> (...)
> > Hat over three days ago, but they have made no suggestions.
>
> ...no surprise, unfortunately...
I find Red Hat's customer service has improved greatly over the last year. Still not
ideal, but better than that large software vendor of binary-only operating systems.
> > 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.
I am using Netscape 4.51 (full strength security version) for my e-mail. I do no
masquerading. Since my sign-up is now working, I conjecture that the sign-up daemon
was either broken, or that the list is maintained by an overworked individual person
who finally got to it. It took about 5 days for the sign-up to work.
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