Hello Brad,
> I have a tape drive from a used computer I bought, I think it is a Colorado
> Jumbo 350 (all it says on the front is Colorado 350), it is a internal tape
> drive that hooks to my standard floppy controller, and I can not get it to
> work. I am running RH 6.0 with kernel 2.2.9 I am using version 4.x-1999-06-?
> from the unstable dir and everything compiles fine and install without any
> errors. but when I try to run either taper of ftape-tools I get a message
> that device is not configured. I got the fdc adress and irq and dma from
> from booting to win98 this is what is said: i/o address-03f2-03f5, irq 6,
> dma 2. Here is how I have conf.modules set up:
Don't believe Windows! Have a look at
cat /proc/ioports
> alias char-major-27 zftape
> options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal
> options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x3F2 ft_fdc_irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=2
Change FDC port adress to 0x3F0 and everything will be ok. So
your options line should look like
options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x3F0 ft_fdc_irq=6
ft_fdc_dma=2
> pre-install ftape-internal /usr/local/bin/swapout 15
> any ideas what is wrong? I have tried using /dev/qft0, dev/nqft0, dev/zqft0,
> dev/nzqft0, dev/ftape and dev/nftape, nothing works. I do not have the
> floppy drive mounted. Is there something missing?
> ...
Good luck.
Martin
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