I have been trying to get parallel port, trakker 350 external to work for a
LOOONNGG time now and am just not having any luck. I am going to post my
MCONFIG and /etc/conf.modules and see if someone can tell me what I have
left out.
The error I keep getting is either /dev/ftape does not exist or is busy.
What is strange is that I get a doesn't exist error the first time I try to
run ftmt and after that I get a busy error.
I have never got any reaction from the tape drive though. And the device
files DO exist in the /dev directory. I did not build ftape into the kernel.
I am using kernel 2.0.35. and ftape-4.03-pre-2. I hope someone can help, I
am getting really frustrated. Thanks...
Here's the MCONFIG, only the parts before the _DON"T CHANGE THIS_ section:
############################################################################
LINUX_LOCATION = /usr/src/linux
KERNEL_VERSION = $$(grep UTS_RELEASE $(LINUX_LOCATION)/include/linux/version.h|cut -d
'"' -f 2)
MODULESDIR = /lib/modules/$(KERNEL_VERSION)/misc
PREFIX = /usr/local
SBINDIR = $(PREFIX)/sbin
BINDIR = $(PREFIX)/bin
INFODIR = $(PREFIX)/info
DOCDIR = $(PREFIX)/doc/ftape
MANDIR = $(PREFIX)/man
ifeq ($(LINUX_LOCATION)/.config,$(wildcard $(LINUX_LOCATION)/.config))
include $(LINUX_LOCATION)/.config
else
CONFIG_M486=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
endif
TRAKKER_DEV=0
FDC_OPT += -DCONFIG_FT_FDC_PARPORT_$(TRAKKER_DEV)=-1 \
-DCONFIG_FT_PAR_$(TRAKKER_DEV)=1 \
-DCONFIG_FT_TRAKKER_$(TRAKKER_DEV)=1 \
-DCONFIG_FT_FDC_BASE_$(TRAKKER_DEV)=0x378 \
-DCONFIG_FT_FDC_IRQ_$(TRAKKER_DEV)=7
FTAPE_OPT = -DTHE_FTAPE_MAINTAINER=\"[EMAIL PROTECTED]\"
FTAPE_OPT += -DBROKEN_FLOPPY_DRIVER
FTAPE_OPT += -DCONFIG_FT_PROC_FS
############################################################################
Here's the conf.modules file.
#############################################################################
options trakker ft_fdc_parport=-1 ft_fdc_base=0x378 ft_fdc_irq=0x7
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=trakker,none,none,none
