Klaus,
Please use the qft0 and nqft0 devices. These names changed between 3.0
and 4.x versions of ftape. You can fix the defualt /dev/tape by typing:
ln -sf /dev/nqft0 /dev/tape
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Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vice President http://www.estinc.com/
Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc. (602) 470-1115
"The BRU Guys"
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Klaus Rilling wrote:
> I'm trying to get my Iomega Tape700 to work under SuSE 6.1 . I
> downloaded the latest ftape sources and succeeded compiling and
> installing the modules. I also compiled a new Kernel without support
> for fTape. The problem is, the device special file for floppy tapes
> under SuSE is /dev/ftape. So when I do a
>
> ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status
>
> I get "/dev/qft0 is not a character special file". Trying
>
> ftmt -f /dev/ftape status
>
> causes "/dev/ftape: Device is not configured".
>
> I guess I simply have to patch the MCONFIG file (I did not edit it), but
> since I am new to this level of system-admin-stuff, any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Klaus Rilling.
>
>
