iomega 700

Domenico Herbst Fri, 22 Oct 1999 14:52:56 -0700

Hi to everybody there....

here is a newby question:

I have a IOMEGA 700 floppy tape, and I' ve seen that is supported by the ftape driver.....

I've tried to have it working under my 2.0.36 kernel (I use the SUSE 6.0 distribution) but it seems to have some problems....

Into the standard compiled kernel there was the 2.08 ftape version allready compiled.

When I'd installed the IOMEGA 700 the system seemed to work very well with the driver. Unluckily, the tape that was with the floppy tape was last formatted with Windows 98. Under the ftape driver when I've tried to "tar" something there was some kernel of messages telling me that the tape was not formatted!!!

So, all you know, that under the 2.08 ftape driver it is not possible to format a tape. I had to switch to the 4.02 in order to make it all functioning in the right way. After updating my EGCS I've successifully managed to compile & install all that stuff, but now it seems that the new driver could not find the hardware (the floppy tape). In fact when I try to backup any file to this devices I get an 'Operation not supported by device'.

I'm sure I had removed from the kernel the ftape support. I must tell you all that I'm a very newby in all the senses, since I've never used linux so much before (but I love to use it now!) but from what I can see in my var/log/messages file it seems that the driver are OK, but maybe I've forgotten to load something......

This is my messages file when I insmod ftape.o , zftape.o and ftape-internal.o:

Oct 22 21:30:45 susy kernel: ftape v4.02 08/29/98

Oct 22 21:30:45 susy kernel:

Oct 22 21:30:45 susy kernel: QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020/Ditto 2GB/MAX floppy tape drives.

Oct 22 21:30:45 susy kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.0.36

Oct 22 21:30:45 susy kernel: installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware drive ...

Oct 22 21:30:45 susy kernel: ftape_init @ 0x028941cc.

Oct 22 21:31:00 susy kernel: zftape for ftape v4.02 08/29/98

Oct 22 21:31:00 susy kernel: vfs interface for ftape floppy tape driver.

Oct 22 21:31:00 susy kernel: Support for QIC-113 compatible volume table.

Oct 22 21:31:00 susy kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.0.36 with versioned symbols

Oct 22 21:31:00 susy kernel: [000] zftape-init.c (zft_init) - zft_init @ 0x028c8204.

Oct 22 21:31:00 susy kernel: [001] zftape-init.c (zft_init) - installing zftape VFS interface for ftape driver ....

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: fdc-internal.c: fdc_internal_register @ 0x028d0904.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [002] fdc-io.c (fdc_register_R3448e164) - Probing for ftape-internal tape drive slot 0.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [003] 0 fdc-internal.c (_fdc_int_detect) - called with count 0.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [004] 0 fdc-internal.c (_fdc_int_detect) - fdc[0] base: 0x03f0, irq: 6, dma: 2.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [005] 0 ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #1 @ 01c56f18, dma area @ 00070000.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [006] 0 ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #2 @ 01c56e98, dma area @ 00300000.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [007] 0 ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #3 @ 01c56d98, dma area @ 00338000.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [008] fdc-io.c (fdc_register_R3448e164) - Probing for ftape-internal tape drive slot 1.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [009] 1 fdc-internal.c (_fdc_int_detect) - called with count 1.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [010] fdc-io.c (fdc_register_R3448e164) - Probing for ftape-internal tape drive slot 2.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [011] 2 fdc-internal.c (_fdc_int_detect) - called with count 2.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [012] fdc-io.c (fdc_register_R3448e164) - Probing for ftape-internal tape drive slot 3.

Oct 22 21:32:08 susy kernel: [013] 3 fdc-internal.c (_fdc_int_detect) - called with count 3.

.................................

When I try to run tar it says:

root@susy:/var/log > tar -cf /dev/qft0 .
tar: Cannot open /dev/qft0: Operation not supported by device
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

and in the messages file:

Oct 23 00:20:01 susy kernel: [025] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_activate_drive) - No tape drive found.

Oct 23 00:20:01 susy kernel: [026] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_enable_Rc3315ad0) - ftape_activate_drive(ftape, &ftape->drive_type) failed: -19.

Oct 23 00:20:01 susy kernel: [027] 0 zftape-ctl.c (_zft_open) - ftape_enable_Rc3315ad0(sel) failed: -19.

Oct 23 00:20:01 susy kernel: [028] 0 zftape-init.c (zft_open) - _zft_open failed.

Same kind of messages even when I try to ftformat..... Any suggest?

Thank you for reading since here, by

Domenico H.

iomega 700

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