Thanks for all the help - got everything compiled and set up
modules/PNP stuff. Seemed to be gettting a bit further - getting a
message from the IO board but still could not do anything useful - debug
messages indicated tape not present. Decided to check all the
connections and managed to short something out - power light on PC is
now flaching and nothing much else appears to be working! Fuse in Power
supply appears OK. Fan on processor is running but not much other
action. Tries removeing all peripheries - still not much action.
Looks Like I've blown the motherboard.
Plan was to get some backup going for my Linux box with all my data on
it.
I've now lost my data.
Stuart
Andy Corteen wrote:
>
> I have a Ditto Max Pro (5/10GB) on a Dash card running fine in a
> RH5.2 / Intel P166 machine.
>
> The main factor in achieving this was: running ISAPNP to force the
> Dash card to play PNP properly. It seems that many PNP cards that
> are not critical to booting the machine do not configure fully via
> the BIOS init, and wait for their Win driver to load and finish
> the config. Using ISAPNP during sysinit solves this. Refer to the
> extracts of my init and conf files at the end of this message.
>
> This information is contained within the readme and howto and
> other ftape files, but it took a lot of effort - and a bit of
> intuition - to make sense of, and interpret what was there.
>
> The only problems that I have remaining are: 1) it runs at 2000
> not the 4000 it is supposed to be capable of, and 2) I had a dead
> tape which tar valiantly attempted to write to but finally gave
> up, leaving the driver locked with no apparent way to kill it -
> other than a restart.
>
> If anyone can offer suggestions on how to zap such locked drivers,
> I would be grateful. Also, tips on how to speed up the tape's
> transfer speed to more like 4000 would be welcomed (this drive
> used to achieve something like 4000 when running on a Windoze /
> Intel P166 machine).
>
> Extract of my conf.modules file
> #
> alias char-major-27 zftape
> options ftape -f ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none
> ft_tracings=3,3,3,3,3
> options zftape -f ft_major_device_number=27
> options ftape-internal -f ft_fdc_fc10=0 ft_fdc_mach2=0
> ft_fdc_base=0x210 ft_fdc_irq=9 ft_fdc_dma=3 ft_fdc_rate_limit=2000
> #
>
> My Isapnp.conf (minus comments)
> #
> (READPORT 0x0210)
> (ISOLATE)
> (IDENTIFY *)
> (CONFIGURE IOM0040/-1 (LD 0
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x0210))
> (INT 0 (IRQ 9 (MODE +E)))
> (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 3))
> (ACT Y)
> ))
> (WAITFORKEY)
>
> Extract of my rc.sysinit (minus comments)
> #
> mount -t proc /proc /proc
> if grep -i nopnp /proc/cmdline >/dev/null ; then
> PNP=
> else
> PNP=yes
> fi
> #
> if [ -x /sbin/isapnp -a -f /etc/isapnp.conf ]; then
> if [ -n "$PNP" ]; then
> echo "Setting up ISA PNP devices"
> /sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> else
> echo "Skipping ISA PNP configuration at users request"
> fi
> fi
> #
>
> Stuart McLean wrote:
> >
> > All
> >
> > Great - I've now got his to compile and successfully loaded the kernel
> > modules. However, it doesn't seem to work!
> >
> > I have an Iomega Ditto Max Pro with a Ditto Dash accellerator card.
> >
> > snip
