Hi,
I've been trying to get ftape working on my system for a while now, and
I haven't had too much luck. I've got an Exabyte Eagle TR-3 internal
drive (on the floppy controller) and I'm running a Red Hat 6.0 system
that I've updated to the 2.2.10 kernel. I read on this list that for
RH6.0 systems, I needed to get the 'unstable' version of ftape, so I
downloaded the 6/30/99 version. Now I can get the status:
This is a Exabyte Eagle TR-3 floppy tape drive, (drive type = 0x0382)
drive status = 0x00e05845
generic drive status = 0x41000000
(In particular: * at begin of tape * tape online * )
sense key error = 0x0000011a
residue count = 0
file number = -1
block number = -1
But whenever I try to do anything that involves actually putting data on
a tape (either tar or ftformat), I get:
Error opening tape device read-only: Permission denied
This happens whether or not I'm 'root'. Here's my conf.modules:
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none
options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x3f0 ft_fdc_irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=2
pre-install ftape-internal /usr/local/bin/swapout 15
And here's the related output in /var/log/messages (I can tell that it
thinks the tape isn't formatted, but why won't it let me format?):
Aug 5 06:18:01 dragonet kernel: ftape v4.03-pre-4 06/30/99
Aug 5 06:18:01 dragonet kernel:
Aug 5 06:18:01 dragonet kernel: (c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven
Aug 5 06:18:01 dragonet kernel: (c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen
Aug 5 06:18:01 dragonet kernel: (c) 1996-1998 Claus-Justus Heine
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Aug 5 06:18:01 dragonet kernel:
Aug 5 06:18:01 dragonet kernel: QIC-117 driver for
QIC-40/80/3010/3020/Ditto 2GB/MAX floppy tape drives.
Aug 5 06:18:01 dragonet kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.2.10
Aug 5 06:18:01 dragonet kernel: installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware
drive ...
Aug 5 06:18:01 dragonet kernel: ftape_init @ 0xc886421c.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: zftape for ftape v4.03-pre-4 06/30/99
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: (c) 1996, 1997 Claus-Justus Heine
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: vfs interface for ftape floppy tape
driver.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: Support for QIC-113 compatible volume
table.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.2.10 with
versioned symbols
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [000] zftape-init.c (zft_init) -
zft_init @ 0xc889a634.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [001] zftape-init.c (zft_init) -
installing zftape VFS interface for ftape driver ....
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: fdc-internal.c: fdc_internal_register @
0xc88a2924.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [002] fdc-io.c
(fdc_register_R3215c98a) - Probing for ftape-internal tape drive slot 0.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [003] 0 fdc-internal.c
(fdc_int_detect) - called with count 0.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [004] 0 fdc-internal.c
(fdc_int_detect) - fdc[0] base: 0x03f0, irq: 6, dma: 2.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [005] 0 ftape-buffer.c
(add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #1 @ c7783e00, dma area @ c0df0000.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [006] 0 ftape-buffer.c
(add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #2 @ c414a3e0, dma area @ c0de8000.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [007] 0 ftape-buffer.c
(add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #3 @ c414a2a0, dma area @ c0de0000.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [008] 0 ftape-calibr.c
(ftape_calibrate) - calibr_count: 7281, calibr_time: 9998 us.
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [009] 0 ftape-calibr.c
(ftape_calibrate) - TC for `fdc_wait()' = 1373 nsec (at 7281 counts).
Aug 5 06:18:02 dragonet kernel: [010] 0 fdc-io.c (fdc_probe) - Type
82077AA FDC found.
Aug 5 06:18:05 dragonet kernel: [011] 0 ftape-ctl.c
(ftape_log_vendor_id) - tape drive type: Exabyte Eagle TR-3.
Aug 5 06:18:05 dragonet kernel: [012] 0 ftape-ctl.c
(ftape_get_drive_status_R6560845c) - status: new cartridge.
Aug 5 06:18:32 dragonet kernel: [013] 0 ftape-ctl.c
(ftape_init_drive) - Warning: tape is not formatted !.
Aug 5 06:18:33 dragonet kernel: [014] 0 ftape-io.c
(ftape_report_configuration) - Unknown Travan tape type detected.
Aug 5 06:18:33 dragonet kernel: [015] 0 ftape-ctl.c
(ftape_init_drive) - post QIC-117B drive @ 1000 Kbps.
Aug 5 06:18:33 dragonet kernel: [016] 0 zftape-ctl.c
(zft_check_write_access) - tape is not formatted.
Aug 5 06:18:33 dragonet kernel: [017] 0 zftape-write.c
(check_write_access) - zft_check_write_access(zftape, pos) failed: -13.
Aug 5 06:18:33 dragonet kernel: [018] 0 zftape-write.c (_zft_write) -
check_write_access(zftape, req_len, &zftape->volume, &zftape->pos,
zftape->blk_sz) failed: -13.
Aug 5 06:18:45 dragonet PAM_pwdb[791]: (su) session opened for user
root by chris(uid=500)
Aug 5 06:18:52 dragonet kernel: [019] 0 zftape-ctl.c
(zft_check_write_access) - tape is not formatted.
Aug 5 06:18:52 dragonet kernel: [020] 0 zftape-write.c
(check_write_access) - zft_check_write_access(zftape, pos) failed: -13.
Aug 5 06:18:52 dragonet kernel: [021] 0 zftape-write.c (_zft_write) -
check_write_access(zftape, req_len, &zftape->volume, &zftape->pos,
zftape->blk_sz) failed: -13.
Aug 5 06:19:06 dragonet kernel: [022] 0 ftape-read.c
(ftape_read_header_segment_R87b6964d) - Cartridge is not formatted.
Aug 5 06:19:06 dragonet kernel: [023] 0 zftape-read.c
(zft_read_header_segments) -
ftape_read_header_segment_R87b6964d(zftape->ftape, zftape->hseg_buf)
failed: -5.
Any clues as to how I can get this thing to work?
Thanks in advance,
Chris Nelson
