Hi list, I have been trying to get my ftape driver up and running, but I have problems. I am using ftape-4.x-1999_09_11 and all went well untarring and making. I run SuSE 6.3, and installed the sources (tarball) into /usr/src/packages/Ftape/, which resulted in the tarball making the main source directory there, which should be OK as far as I understand the scripting of the insert file, as I understand it uses the modules (*.o) in its own directory and loads them into memory. My problem is that when I run '. insert', and then try the various mt commands, i get the following error: QUOTE mt: /dev/ftape: Device not configured UNQOUTE When I use the tip that Mr. Alex V Flinch gave me on 24 May on this list, to install the modules separately by direct insmod, all goes well and I can get the tape working. In the insert file, I have commented out all things about parport and all other than the lines needed for internal floppy tape (I am using Conner CTT 800 R-F / CTT 800i-F, an internal Travan 1 tape drive). I also, have tried to change the order of installing the drivers within the insert file, but I am still getting the same error. Another thing that strikes me as odd is in the listing from lsmod, where the zftape seems to be used minus one times, but this may be my misunderstanding (an explanation would be welcomed): QUOTE Module Size Used by zftape 88908 -1 (unused) ftape-internal 10484 0 ftape 146392 0 [zftape ftape-internal] parport 6984 0 (unused) serial 42932 0 (autoclean) memstat 1604 0 (unused) nls_iso8859-1 2236 1 (autoclean) UNQOUTE If I try to rmmod ftape, rmmod returns the error: "ftape in use". I can though remove it by first rmmod-ing zftape and ftape-internal. Just to give the results of 'mt -f /dev/qft0 status' or 'mt -f /dev/ftape status' (both work), after I have insmod-ed each module in the simple way: insmod ftape insmod ftape-internal insmod zftape this is what I get: QUOUTE drive type = 8388944 drive status = 2283621 sense key error = 6943 residue count = 0 file number = 0 block number = 0 gstat = 41000000 UNQOUTE I wonder whether someone can point me to the part in the insert file I need to edit in order for it to work. I have not yet done any tweaking on any references to addresses or the like. Thanks for your help. Bodvar
