On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:26:58PM -0500, Denney, Richard M. wrote:
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>
> I have upgraded from RH 5.1 to 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5) on two IBM Aptiva systems
... some people mailed to me personally, that upgrading the kernel from
that precompiled version to e. g. 2.2.12 had fixed their problems...
(apart from that, 2.2.5-15 is really something that should be
considered to be upgraded)
> (onw A90 100 MH and one L61 400 MHz K6) and have had problems getting ftape
> (unstable versions or older versions) to work properly. I have solved most
> of the problem with the Pentium systems, but despite numerous tries,
...are there really no differences in the setup between both systems?
Strange to me, I must say.
> continue to get the discouraging message, "device not configured" error on
> the other.
>
> Both systems have Iomega Ditto 3200 Easy drives which were working on those
> systems with ftape-4.02 under RH 5.1 (kernel 2.0.34) prior to the upgrade.
> Both drives work currently under Win98, so parallel port (ECP) is working
> OK.
Some of the last postings claimed that switching the parport settings inside
the BIOS to bidirectional would do the trick; I think this is worth while
trying it - it doesn't take much time.
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>
> The insert file is as follows: Note that only bpck-fdc is defined (as device
> 0)
> ******************
> insmod ./ftape.o ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none ft_tracings=3,3,3,3,3
> insmod ./zftape.o ft_major_device_number=27 # ${27-FT_MAJOR}
>
> #insmod ./ftape-internal.o ft_fdc_fc10=0 ft_fdc_mach2=0 ft_fdc_base=0x210
> ft_fdc_dma=0 ft_fdc_threshold=15 # ft_fdc_rate_limit=4000
> modprobe parport || true # pre-2.1 kernels don't have the parport module
> #insmod ./trakker.o
> insmod ./bpck-fdc.o ft_fdc_threshold=15 ft_fdc_rate_limit=1000
I would add a third option to the bpck-fdc line: ft_fdc_parport=0
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> The insert command gives no errors. lsmod gives the following:
>
> ******
> Module Size Used by
> bpck-fdc 30232 0
> parport 7092 0 (unused)
> zftape 88524 -1
> ftape 146168 0 [bpck-fdc zftape]
> 3c509 5812 1 (autoclean)
> hpfs 8568 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> nls_cp437 3548 3 (autoclean)
> msdos 8220 3 (autoclean)
> fat 25664 3 (autoclean) [msdos]
Ok, I have the impression, that at least the very recent versions of
ftape do not work without those parport modules. If this is correct,
you seem to miss parport_pc. You could modify "insert" by removing
"|| true" in the "modprobe parport" line. By the way - /etc/conf.modules
should contain lines like:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
>
> On the L61 system the command "ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 status" (or qft0 or ftape
> (linked to qft0)) gives the message "device not configured". On the other
> system, it works fine.
Wow! This is really a surprise to me. Could you please verify that there
is absolutely no difference in the setup between both computers?
(of course only the ftape related stuff should matter)
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Bye, Juergen.
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