Richard Zack wrote:
>
> I have an internal colorado jumbo 250 drive.. It uses the FC-10
> interface card. I'm trying to install it with Mandrake 6.0 kernel 2.2.6.
> Here is my /etc/conf.modules file
>
> alias char-major-27 zftape
> options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,fc10,none,none
> options ftape_internal ft_fdc_base=0x300 ft_fdc_irq=9 ft_fdc_dma=1
>
> However, I always get the "Device not configured" error message. I am not
> 100% positive on the irq and io address, unfortunatly there is no way to
> figure that information out as far as I can tell.
>
> The tape drive is plugged into an FC-10 interface card, which is isa but
> not pnp, so I'll assume that I don't need to use isapnptools. pnpdump
> can't find any devices attached to system.
>
> I've actually gone through every possibility of irq,io,and dma, and none
> of them work.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone ever gotten a colorado jumbo
> 250 (with FC-10 interface card) to work for Linux?
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
> Richard Zack (RHCE)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm...I had problem that sounds a lot like that, only I was using the
built-in FDC to controll the Jumbo 250. Annoyed me to no end. Except
when I checked the configuration for the floppy controller that the
driver was using, it said irq 0, dma 0, port 0, like the FDC wasn't
there at all. This made no sense to me because I could unload the ftape
modules, and mount a floppy disk without any problems. I never reported
it because I wasn't using the latest kernel (or ftape, for that matter),
and by the time I did upgrade, I needed the power cable splitter that
fed the tape drive to feed my new CD-RW drive. So now the tape drive
sits in my computer, disconnected, never knowing if it will ever work
(and read the data off of those old DC2120 tapes I made way back when,
need to transfer that stuff to a CD) The drive DID work under DOS (My
backup program would crash under Windoze). I too, got the infamous "no
member named timeout" compiler error when trying to compile the "stable"
version of ftape. You know what I did...I rewrote that part so it
looked like the version that would compile (might explain my problems
with the FDC, maybe?) This may not have been any help, but it might
give others enough extra information to figure out what's going on.
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