I recently upgraded from RedHat 5.1 (kernel 2.0.35) to Redhat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5-15) and the ftape no longer works. when tring to use it with tar i receive the message: tar: Cannot open /dev/rft0: no such device tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The hardware is Exabyte Qic 3020 and worked fine using the ftape-2.08 version but is not working with the ftape v3.04d 25/11/97 . after trying to run tar, the following messages are logged: ftape v3.04d 25/11/97 (c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (c) 1996-1997 Claus-Justus Heine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020 floppy tape drives Compiled for Linux version 2.2.5-15 with versioned symbols [000] ftape-init.c (ftape_init) - installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware drive ... . [001] ftape-init.c (ftape_init) - ftape_init @ 0xc882e04c. [002] ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #1 @ c7a763e0, dma area @ c0ff8000. [003] ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #2 @ c7a76480, dma area @ c0ff0000. [004] ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #3 @ c7a762a0, dma area @ c0fe8000. [005] ftape-calibr.c (time_inb) - inb() duration: 893 nsec. [006] ftape-calibr.c (ftape_calibrate) - TC for `ftape_udelay()' = 492 nsec (at 10239 counts). [007] ftape-calibr.c (ftape_calibrate) - TC for `fdc_wait()' = 2263 nsec (at 2559 counts). I would greatly appreciate any help as i desparately need this backup media. Larry Honeycutt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
