>how did you get your internal Ditto 2G to work ? i threw my old
>unreliabe parallel port Colorado to junk and got Ditto which is
>connected directly to fdc and i haven't been able to make in work at all
>! i downloaded latest ftape stuff 4.x, date 25.4.99 and new tools but
>still no luck. i'm using redhat with kernel 2.0.36... i've got some
>messages about that ftape is unable to change the transfer rate or
>something. i read that ditto needs 1000k-2000k of transfer speed but
>linux says my fdc transfers 500k. according to my knoledge my
>motherboard (txproii, supports 2.88M floppies) is able to do atleast
>1000k which should be enough !
My system specs: Red Hat 6.0 featuring kernel 2.2.5-22, an Iomega TR3
internal tape drive connected to the floppy controller, ftape
4.x-1999_06_30 with ftape-tools-1999_03_017.
I'm not exactly sure about the Ditto 2G, but if it's similar to my tape unit
and your BIOS and motherboard support 2.88M floppy drives, you should be
able to use it. If your motherboard's floppy disk controller (FDC) is not
capable of supporting the minimum transfer speed needed, the tape drive
won't work and you will need to find one of those "accelerator" boards to
use it. An added bonus of the accelerator board is that you will probably
double the speed of the tape drive- at least my drive seems to run 1/2 the
speed of my old (dead & buried) parallel port unit.
I'll assume you have all the ftape modules correctly compiled and installed.
Here's the ftape lines of my /etc/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
Now, try typing this:
[doug@godzuki /etc]$ mt -f /dev/nqft0 status
qic-117 drive type = 0x08882
File number=-1, block number=-1.
mt_resid: 0, mt_erreg: 0x0
mt_dsreg: 0x9, mt_gstat: 0x40000
General status bits on (40000):
DR_OPEN
You can see what happened when I did it. I didn't have a tape in the drive,
that's why I got a "DR_OPEN" message. Here's some more info:
[doug@godzuki /etc]$ cat /proc/modules
ftape-internal 6988 0 (autoclean)
zftape 51756 -1 (autoclean)
ftape 111032 0 (autoclean) [ftape-internal zftape]
These are all the ftape modules, loaded and working in my system. Yes, the
will unload themselves when they aren't used for a specified time. I
snipped out the other modules that you aren't worried about.
If this doesn't work, report back with exactly what error messages you are
getting.
--
Douglas Bollinger
Mt. Holly Springs, PA 17065
My other computer runs Linux.
