Hello again Greg,
Jochen Hoenicke solved this for me once.
Basically, the �irq� and/or �io� information of the PC parallel port are
missing. You have to tell the parport module which irq/io to use, or else
ftape can't find your tape driver.
Assuming the modules are autoloaded via modprobe, try to append a line like
this to /etc/conf.modules:
options parport_pc io=IO irq=N
where N (usually 7) is the irq and IO (usually 0x378) is the io adress of
the parallel port. They can be found at the BIOS settings.
Regards,
Rafael Oliveira
Greg Walker wrote:
> What does it mean ... "Device not configured"?
>
> kernel 2.2.9, ftape 4.x-1999_09_11 (because its the only one I can get
> to compile). Iomega Ditto MAX on the prallel port. The modules appear to
> be loaded ...
>
> parport_probe 2980 0 (autoclean)
> parport_pc 5596 0 (autoclean)
> bpck-fdc 32292 0 (autoclean)
> parport 7156 0 (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc
> bpck-fdc]
> zftape 88940 -1
> ftape 147832 0 [bpck-fdc zftape]
>
> The command (run as root) that produced this error is "tar cvf /dev/qft0
> /home". "mt" also returns the same error.
>
> crw------- 1 root root 27, 0 Nov 8 18:17 /dev/qft0
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
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