"Gloistein, Geoffrey" wrote:
>
> I am having trouble with my internal T-3000 tape drive. I have installed the
> drive attached to the floppy controller. I am running RedHat 6.1. When I try
> "ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status" I receive the error "device not configured". Did
> I miss something? My understanding is that there is no configuration needed
> when using a device connected to the floppy controller. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. I have read the documentation with ftape and
> ftape-tools.
My guess is that your internal FDC can't support 2MB/sec. The T3000 is
a TR-3 drive which requires 2MB/sec for full operation. Please get an
accelerator card such as the FC20, or a Ditto DASH (both work fine with
a T3000). Next, make sure that you are using the latest ftape drivers.
Visit http://www.LinuxTapeCert.org for details and to download.
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