Hi!
First, please switch off the HTML, it's uncurteous and a waste
of space in email --- an even more in email lists. Second,
please consider a line length of <72 chars. (long log file
lines might be exempted, though.)
[reformat] ... Now, here, that looks better!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
[IOMEGA 700 floppy tape, 2.0.36 kernel]
> Into the standard compiled kernel there was the 2.08 ftape
> version allready compiled.
You either want the (late) 3.04d ftape or one of the *stable*
ftape 4.x --- the *un*stable ones are for the 2.2.x kernels
(changed kernel API, they are not really unstable). 2.08 is
ancient, about as much as Windows 3.0 nowadays.
> 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 &
Warning: Do not use EGCS to compile Linux 2.0 kernels. Do use
gcc, the 2.0.x kernels relies on a couple of compiler bugs
in gcc. You may want to extend that to ftape. But you knew
that, right?
> I'm sure I had removed from the kernel the ftape support.
Just to be sure, goto /usr/src/linux, make menuconfig, check
that there's no ftape there and recheck that the kernel
(/vmlinuz or /boot/vmlinuz) is indeed the one compiled (check
the date).
> I must tell you all that I'm a very newby in all the senses,
I disagree. :-)
> 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.
according to include/linux/qic117.h, error 19 means
Command Illegal When Cartridge Not Referenced
beats me, though, no idea what that means.
-Wolfgang
