: Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:41:55 +0000
: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
: I got the trakker drivers running on one of my machines so I took the
: MCONFIG and the conf.modules from that one along with the same tape drive
: and built ftape for another machine. IT doesn't work. BOth machines have the
: same kernel and external trakker 350 parallel port tape drive. But I keep
: getting a 'no such device' error. I looked and made sure /dev/nqft0 was
: there and it is, I also made sure the printer module wasn't loading up and
: it isn't. In fact the only modules that are loaded are ftape and zftape,
: trakker isn't loading.
:
: I will send the /var/log/messages along with theis note maybe someone can
: decipher something from it.
:
: [002] 0 fdc-io.c (fdc_init) - fdc_search_driver(ftape->drive_sel) failed: -6.
How did you load the modules? Automatically by accessing /dev/nqft0,
or did you use insmod or modprobe?
If you use insmod, the options in /etc/conf.modules aren't used and
you have to give them by hand, so better use modprobe.
If you use modprobe, my guess is, that on one machine you don't have
enabled automatic module loading in the kernel, or didn't start the
kernel daemon (kerneld).
If automatic module loading works, maybe the ftape driver wasn't
compiled with it, since the /usr/src/linux/.config didn't enable it.
Try to insert the trakker module by hand: "modprobe trakker".
Jochen
