: Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:53:21 -0500
: From: Tim Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
: I have upgraded to the latest version of the kernel 2.2.5-22, and I got the
: latest version of the unstable ftape-4.x-1999_06_30. I believe I have a
: standard floppy controller and only changed MCONFIG to have i586 instead of
: the default i486. "make" and "make install" and ./modules/insert all went
: okay without errors.
:
: However, when I did an "lsmod", I did not receive the expected:
: ftape-internal (autoclean)
: zftape (autoclean
: ftape (autoclean)
:
: but instead I got:
:
: [root@gateway modules]# lsmod
: Module Size Used by
: bpck-fdc 32068 0
: trakker 14976 0
: parport 7092 0 [bpck-fdc trakker]
: ftape-internal 10284 0
: zft-compressor 16396 -1
: zftape 87500 -1 [zft-compressor]
: ftape 145432 0 [bpck-fdc trakker ftape-internal
: zft-compressor zftape]
That is correct behaviour. If you don't want to install the drivers
for parallel port tapes (bpck-fdc, trakker, parport) you can comment
them out in modules/insert. But you should use the insert script only
until you get ftape working and after that edit /etc/conf.modules.
: I tried to do a simpe "mt -f /dev/nqft0 status" and "rewind" and got
: "device not configured"
:
: If this is related to setting the base, irq and dma, could you let
: me know how I discover these. I've tried to find them via dmesg and
: they aren't shown.
You can increase the tracing parameters ft_tracings in the insert
script. Increase the first two numbers. The second number applies to
the messages about the /dev/nqft0 drive, the first number applies to
messages that don't correspond to a particular drive.
If there are too many messages, the dmesg buffer may overflow. You
can find the full list of messages in /var/log/messages. You should
send the messages (with the default tracings level) to the list or
privately to me. Often it is possible to find out what is wrong.
Jochen
