On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 12:00:24PM -0400, Angel M. Rodriguez wrote:
> Pardon for my ignorance if this has been asked before.
> I have tried to load the RPM for ftape 4.02 into RH 6.0 and running both
> taper and KBackup with no results..
Angel,
under kernels 2.2.x you need the most recent drivers, that is those
unstable ones, which are in fact rather stable. You can find them under
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/unstable/
You won't find an rpm, so have to
- unpack the source
- edit MCONFIG and change it according to your needs
- make
- make install
>
> I have an old Colorado 250 which has been converted to a parallel port
> drive device using the kit from Colorado.
> I assume it works like the Trakker 250 product.
>
> I have tried setting the parallel port in conf.modules but I can't talk
> to any of the tape devices on my machine.
> Sending mount commands to various /dev/ doesn't produce anything.
A tape drive cannot be mounted. You have to "treat" it by using ftmt and tar,
e. g.
ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status
ftmt is included in the ftape-tools package, that can be found at
Claus' web site as well.
>
> Here is my conf.modules file:
>
> alias eth0 3c59x
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
> alias sound sb
> pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1
> alias midi opl3
> options opl3 io=0x388
> options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
> alias char-major-27 zftape
> options ftape ft_fdc_driver=trakker,none,none,none
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
> options ftape ft_fdc_driver=trakker,none,none,none
> #pre-install ftape-internal /sbin/swapout 16
>
Well, seems correct to me, but I am not familiar with trakker drives;
As far as the parport stuff is concerned: We talked about this
some days ago - your parport_pc settings presumably work; if not, feel free to
kick out (unload) all of the parport modules before trying to load
the ftape modules.
I must admit I don't know if you should add a line containing trakker options.
Good luck, Juergen.
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