All,
I did a search of the Caldera Knowledge Base and the Linux newsgroups
at Dejanews re. this problem without finding a post with any useful
info. I am submitting my problem here in hopes of getting some useful
info.
I have dual boot Win95 & Caldera OpenLinux (kernel 2.2.5) box with an
Iomega Ditto EZ 3200 tape drive connected to a Ditto Dash accelerator
card installed. The card is addressed to the following params (I used
them because they were suggested in the ftape HOWTO for this tape
unit):
I/O base=370H
IRQ=6
DMA=2
The tape drive runs great under Win 95; I cannot get it to run under
Linux. I am using the ftape 3.04d module that came with the Caldera
distribution CD. I tried updating to ftape 4.02 but ran into multiple
errors when trying to compile (something I also would like to get
fixed, but we digress).
The ftape modules load at boot just fine. So I tried to test the tape
drive using the cmd "tar -cvf /dev/qft0 /root" and I got an I/O error.
I am appending the dump from /var/log/messages that I got as a result:
Jun 26 13:23:04 duke kernel: [041] ftape-read.c
(ftape_decode_header_segment_R08b665ef) - Tape parameters
inconsistency,
please report.
Jun 26 13:23:04 duke kernel: [042] ftape-read.c
(ftape_decode_header_segment_R08b665ef) - reported =
4/1122/50/55/254/128.
Jun 26 13:23:04 duke kernel: [043] ftape-read.c
(ftape_decode_header_segment_R08b665ef) - required =
4/1122/50/54/254/128.
Jun 26 13:23:04 duke kernel: [044] zftape-read.c
(zft_read_header_segments) -
ftape_read_header_segment_Ra2b14b3c(zft_hseg_buf) failed: -5.
Jun 26 13:23:04 duke kernel: [045] zftape-write.c
(check_write_access)
- - zft_read_header_segments() failed: -5.
Jun 26 13:23:04 duke kernel: [046] zftape-write.c (_zft_write) -
check_write_access(req_len, &volume,&zft_pos,zft_blk_sz) failed: -5.
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: [047] ftape-ctl.c
(ftape_disable_R7b52f04b) - == Non-fatal errors this run: ==.
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: [048] ftape-ctl.c
(ftape_disable_R7b52f04b) - fdc isr statistics:
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: id_am_errors : 0
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: id_crc_errors : 0
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: data_am_errors : 0
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: data_crc_errors : 0
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: overrun_errors : 0
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: no_data_errors : 0
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: retries : 1.
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: [049] ftape-ctl.c
(ftape_disable_R7b52f04b) - ecc statistics:
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: crc_errors : 0
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: crc_failures : 0
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: ecc_failures : 0
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: sectors corrected: 0.
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: [050] ftape-ctl.c
(ftape_disable_R7b52f04b) - tape motion statistics:
Jun 26 13:23:11 duke kernel: repositions : 1.
Any help someone can provide in troubleshooting this will be greatly
appreciated. Please reply via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as
well as to the group.
Cheers.
C.A. 'Duke' Fleming
I/T Manager
AlliedSignal Inc.
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