[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKee) writes:
> 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
Just run "depmod -a" to update /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep
> 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
... because you are using the version of ftape which comes with the
2.2.14 kernel. Please read (*) below.
> (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.
cat /proc/ftape/driver/version
should give you the desired information.
> 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?
(*) Please install the latest version of ftape which is
ftape-4.03. Can be fetched from sunsite of the web site mentioned in
the signature.
Compile, install and try again. Post again if it still doesn't work.
Claus
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