Hello all,
I actually posted a message about this problem before. Unfortunately, I
did not receive any suggestion. So I hope I will have better luck this
time.
I have an internal Exabyte Eagle TR-3 floppy drive in a Pentium II 300MHZ
PC running Slackware Linux kernel 2.0.33. The following messages from
"dmesg" shows what ftape version I am using and the problem I am currently
experiencing:
ftape v4.02 08/29/98
(c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven
(c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen
(c) 1996-1998 Claus-Justus Heine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020/Ditto 2GB/MAX floppy tape drives.
Compiled for Linux version 2.0.33
installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware drive ...
ftape_init @ 0x0483f1c0.
zftape for ftape v4.02 08/29/98
(c) 1996, 1997 Claus-Justus Heine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
vfs interface for ftape floppy tape driver.
Support for QIC-113 compatible volume table.
Compiled for Linux version 2.0.33
[000] zftape-init.c (zft_init) - zft_init @ 0x04872710.
[001] zftape-init.c (zft_init) - installing zftape VFS interface for
ftape drive
r ....
fdc-internal.c: fdc_internal_register @ 0x0487a9a0.
[002] fdc-io.c (fdc_register) - Probing for ftape-internal tape drive
slot 0.
[003] 0 fdc-internal.c (_fdc_int_detect) - called with count 0.
[004] 0 fdc-internal.c (_fdc_int_detect) - fdc[0] base: 0x03f0, irq: 6,
dma: 2.
[005] 0 ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #1 @ 00a2d818, dma
area @ 008
68000.
[006] 0 ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #2 @ 0104ff18, dma
area @ 008
60000.
[007] 0 ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #3 @ 0232c018, dma
area @ 009
e8000.
[008] 0 ftape-calibr.c (ftape_calibrate) - calibr_count: 6953,
calibr_time: 99
97 us.
[009] 0 ftape-calibr.c (ftape_calibrate) - TC for `fdc_wait()' = 1437
nsec (at
6953 counts).
[010] 0 fdc-io.c (fdc_probe) - Type 82077AA FDC found.
[011] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_log_vendor_id) - tape drive type: Exabyte
Eagle TR-3
.
[012] 0 ftape-io.c (ftape_report_configuration) - TR-3 tape detected.
[013] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_init_drive) - post QIC-117B drive @ 1000
Kbps.
[014] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_calibrate_data_rate) - Highest FDC
supported data r
ate: 1000 Kbps.
[015] 0 ftape-io.c (ftape_report_configuration) - TR-3 tape
detected.
[016] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_init_drive) - unknown length QIC-3020 tape.
[017] 0 ftape-rw.c (ftape_wait_segment) - fdc_interrupt_wait
failed.
[018] 0 ftape-read.c (ftape_read_segment) - interrupted by
non-blockable si
gnal.
[019] 0 ftape-read.c (ftape_read_header_segment) - header segment
damaged, t
rying backup.
[020] 0 ftape-read.c (ftape_read_segment) - interrupted by
non-blockable si
gnal.
[021] 0 ftape-read.c (ftape_read_header_segment) - No deblock
buffer.
[022] 0 zftape-read.c (zft_read_header_segments) -
ftape_read_header_segment(
zftape->ftape, zftape->hseg_buf) failed: -5.
[023] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_print_history) - == Non-fatal errors this
run: ==.
[024] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_print_history) - fdc isr statistics:
id_am_errors : 0
id_crc_errors : 0
data_am_errors : 0
data_crc_errors : 0
overrun_errors : 0
no_data_errors : 0
retries : 0.
[025] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_print_history) - ecc statistics:
crc_errors : 0
crc_failures : 0
ecc_failures : 0
sectors corrected: 0.
[026] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_print_history) - tape motion statistics:
repositions : 1.
These messages were generated with the "ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status" command.
It kept on reading and rewinding the tape until I hit CTRL-C. Message
[017] reported fdc_interrupt_wait failed. The tape drive was detected
properly (I think); however, I could only rewind the tape. Everything (any
read and write attempt) else failed in pretty much the same way.
I would appreciate any suggestion. Thank you very much in advance.
Alex
