>I previously had this drive working with the stock RedHat install, but in
>order to get ftformat to work I attempted an upgrade. 4.02 did not
>compile, so I went to the latest, greatest, ftape:
By the way, you probably could have gotten ftformat to work by using the
ftape tools included with the ftape-3.04d.tar.gz tarball. As you found out,
the newer versions of ftformat are not compatable with the ftape modules
included with RH6.0. The newer versions of ftape are nicer, anyway.
>ftape-4.x-1999_09_11
>RH 6.1 Fresh 2.2.13 kernel installed
>Used the kernel-inclusion scripts from ftape
What scripts are this? When I compiled the 2.2.13 kernel, I just disabled
the ftape inside the kernel tree with menuconfig and compiled the modules
from the tarball. Is this what you did? Are you referring to the
conf.module lines?
>The tape drive is a Seagate 3200MB Travan drive on the supplied FDC. The
>port/base/dma are as shown in line 004 of the output below
>(/etc/conf.modules was set up according to the docs). Line 011 says "No
>tape drive found"... I'm at a loss... where should I go from here?
I have a very similar setup to yours. Perhaps I can help you.
I'm using the kernel module loader. Here's the ftape-specific lines from
/etc/conf.modules
[doug@godzuki /etc]$ cat conf.modules
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none
options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x3f0 ft_fdc_irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=2
When you use this, you don't need to load the modules with a script or by
hand, and they unload when unused for awhile. Very slick. Hmmm, looks like
you are probable already using this? Did you set the options by hand, like
I did above?
[doug@godzuki /etc]$ ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 status
This is a Iomega 3200 floppy tape drive, (drive type = 0x8882)
drive status = 0x00000009
generic drive status = 0x00040000
(In particular: * door open (no tape) * )
sense key error = 0x00000000
residue count = 0
file number = -1
block number = -1
[doug@godzuki /etc]$ cat /proc/modules
ftape-internal 6988 0 (autoclean)
zftape 52236 -1 (autoclean)
ftape 113496 0 (autoclean) [ftape-internal zftape]
<snip>
And the ftape lines from dmesg are:
ftape v4.03-pre-4 06/30/99
(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 2.2.13
installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware drive ...
ftape_init @ 0xc4847140.
zftape for ftape v4.03-pre-4 06/30/99
fdc-internal.c: fdc_internal_register @ 0xc4872a38.
Beyond setting the ftape options manually with the options line in
conf.modules, the only other thing I noticed is that I'm using a slightly
older version of ftape than you, specifically ftape-4.x-1999_06_30.tar.gz.
I haven't bothered to update because the tape drive is working fine.
<snipping debug info>
Douglas Bollinger
Mt. Holly Springs, PA 17065
My other computer runs Linux.
