I am running RedHat 6.1 (Kernel 2.2.14) on a machine with an Asus P5A-B
m/b, AMD K6-2/350 CPU and a Colorado 350 floppy tape drive using
Ftape-4.04. Eveything works well, except for the tape drive.
Here is a list of the format parameters that are passed to the command
line by Ftape_Tools-1.09
--mode=force --discard-header --format-parameters
qic-standard=0x02,format-code=2
floppy-head-max=6,floppy-track-max=149,segments-per-track=150,tracks-per-tape=28,
gap3=233,format-filler-byte=0x6b
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Error messages:
Erasing Track 0Tape Drive error sending physical forward command:15
(Command illegal
or undefined in Format Mode)
Please ignore error message printed bove! Tape drive error sending
select rate or
format command:8 (Illegal Command Report Subcontext)
Please ignore the error message printed above if yoour cartridge can be
formatted
sucessfully!
Writing reference bursts ... Done.
Formatting Track 0, segment 0 (Tape drive stops at segment # 38, but
segment counter continues to 149.
Tape drive starts again, and stars
formatting Track 1)
Formatting Track 1,segment 150 (Tape drive stops when counters reaches
188, but counter counter continues
to 300. Tape drive starts again
and runs until segment counter
reaches 338
Needless to say, the tape does not get formatted. There is nothing wrong
with the tape drive. It worked very nicely in a 486 machine with a very
generic m/b running RedHat 6.1 and Ftape-4.04. Anybody have any ideas
as to how I can get this tape drive to work in its new home?
