Claus-Justus Heine wrote:
> Can you please cross check, i.e. go back to the older version of ftape
> and try whether it still works, then use the newer version and try
> again.
>
> Please try to run the same tests with both driver versions, using the
> same environment.
>
Problem solved. I recompiled my kernel to include the ftape version that
ships with 2.2.14 (3.04g, I believe). When I ran my tests, they worked
perfectly.
Upon looking in /var/log/messages, I discovered that the older version
was autoprobing for all its configuration parameters and had decided to
use ft_fdc_dma=2 on my system, not 0 as I had been using.
When I went back to my original kernel (no built-in ftape) and modified
the "insert" script to load the ftape module with ft_fdc_dma=2, the
"overrun" problem went away.
What is this mysterious DMA thing anyway?
Thanks for your help, Claus and Neil.
-doug
