OK. I think I'm able to talk to the parallel port now (at least it looks like ftape is trying to find a device on 0x378, irq 7). However, it's still failing. Is an Exabyte Eagle TR-3 going to work? Is there a way to use some sort of generic driver with an external drive? Am I just plain out of luck? If I am, what tape drive should I buy? Anyway, I captured more information. The error messages are now at the point that I'm not even able to make a reasonable guess, except that maybe since ftape is expecting a certain value, my drive isn't supported. So, here's the conf.modules file: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 alias eth0 ne alias eth1 ne options eth0 -o ne-0 io=0x300 options eth1 -o ne-1 io=0x280 # Ftape stuff # load ftape/zftape automatically alias char-major-27 zftape options ftape ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none # options bpck-fdc ft_fdc_parport=0 (This doesn't work) # options bpck-fdc ft_fdc_base=0x378 ft_fdc_irq=7 (This doesn't work) pre-install ftape-internal /usr/contrib/bin/swapout 15 Here's the system messages for the last time I tried. Notice the line marked 007. That seems to be key, but I don't know what it means. Oct 28 14:53:10 system1 kernel: ftape v4.03-pre-4 06/30/99 Oct 28 14:53:10 system1 kernel: Oct 28 14:53:10 system1 kernel: (c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven Oct 28 14:53:10 system1 kernel: (c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen Oct 28 14:53:10 system1 kernel: (c) 1996-1998 Claus-Justus Heine ([EMAIL PROTECTED] h.rwth-aachen.de) Oct 28 14:53:10 system1 kernel: Oct 28 14:53:10 system1 kernel: QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020/Ditto 2GB /MAX floppy tape drives. Oct 28 14:53:10 system1 kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.2.12 Oct 28 14:53:10 system1 kernel: installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware drive ..
