I am still trying to learn low level Linux. I have tried to find an ansers
to my ftape problem using the FAQ and the HOWTO. I suspect the problem is
yet another one of those absurdly simple issues.
I have an Iomega internal tape drive (QIC-80).
The operating system is Red Hat 6.2. Kernel is 2.2.14-5.0.
The ftpae objects exist on the system at /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc. The
ftape.o module has a size of 179675 and a date of Mar 7. I found no other
ftape modules in other subdirectories of /lib/modules.
The file /etc/conf.modules did not contain the entries for ftape, so I added
them. The entries in /dev already exist.
When I ran the modprobe command after appending the suggested ftape lines, I
received several messages.
First message complained that /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep was older
than /etc/conf.modules. I can understand that as I had just added lines to
/etc/conf.modules. I was tempted to use 'touch" on the .dep file, but have
not done that. Should I? Does something need to be done to the .dep file?
It does contain ftape.o already
The next message is more troubling;
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/ftape.o: invalid parameter parm_ft_fdc_driver
The associated line in /etc/conf.modules is:
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none
(I may have entered the line incorrectly. I thought there were only two
"none" entries following ftape-internal. So I removed a "none". Made no
difference.)
Do I have the proper version of ftape installed? How can I tell? I really
appreciate your assistance.
Once this works, I would like to also use a parallel port tape backup
(QIC-3020), but that is a different issue. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your time.
