Hello everyone, My Internal Iomega Ditto 800 recently broke and I had the good luck to find an opportunity to acquire an external Ditto 800 for free. I have recompiled ftape and it seems to have created all the correct modules. I am running Linux 2.2.14 and I have parallel port support compiled in as modules. I modprobe parport.o, parport_pc.o, ftape.o, and zftape.o which all seem to work fine, however, when I modprobe bpck-fdc.o, it fails to insert (/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/bpck-fdc.o: init_module: Device or resource busy. ftape: Device or resource busy). I looked in my log and when I modprobe'd bpck-fdc.o, it said: Feb 12 18:31:16 setec-astronomy kernel: bpck-fdc.c: bpck_fdc_register @ 0xc886439c Feb 12 18:31:16 setec-astronomy kernel: [094] fdc-io.c (fdc_register) - Probing for bpck-fdc tape drive slot 0. Feb 12 18:31:16 setec-astronomy kernel: [095] 0 fdc-parport.h (ft_parport_probe) - dev: c699d260. Feb 12 18:31:16 setec-astronomy kernel: [096] 0 fdc-parport.h (ft_parport_probe) - irq: -1. Feb 12 18:31:16 setec-astronomy kernel: [097] 0 fdc-parport.h (ft_parport_probe) - port: 378. Feb 12 18:31:16 setec-astronomy kernel: [098] 0 fdc-parport.h (ft_parport_probe) - can't find parport interface for ftape id 0. Feb 12 18:31:16 setec-astronomy kernel: [099] 0 bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_detect) - can't find bpck interface for ftape id 0. Feb 12 18:31:16 setec-astronomy kernel: [100] 0 bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_detect) - ft_parport_probe(fdc, &bpck->parinfo) failed: -6. It then repeated this for "Tape Drive Slot" 1, 2, and 3, with the same results. I have the Ditto 800 plugged into LPT1/parport0, the only parallel port on my system. I have also tried modprobing bpck-fdc.o with the "ft_fdc_parport=0" option, but that seems to make no difference. I have tried this with my parallel port set (in the BIOS) "Standard" and "ECP/EPP" mode. Changing the setting seemed to make no difference either. I am using ftape-4.x-1999-09-11, which I believe to be the newest version (please correct me if I'm wrong). I am unable to use the "stable" version, ftape-4.02 because it will not compile on my system (it gives an error in fdc-io.c on lines 433 and 454, in the function fdc_interrupt_wait). Before compiling ftape, I have configured, compiled, and "make dep"'d my kernel sources, and the correct path to them is set in MCONFIG. If anyone could give me any hints, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, Russell Dekema [EMAIL PROTECTED]
