IT's WORKING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you to everyone who has helped me.
I think it might be a problem with the kernel 2.2 I was running and a hardware problem.
/HHA
----- Original Message -----
From: Juergen Leising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 29. juli 1999 20:21
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 2.2.5-22 which ftape version
> 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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