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I really do not understand what is happening here. When my
Colorado 350 tape drive was in my old machine running RedHat
6.1 and Ftape 4.04, I was able to read from and write to
tape as well as being able to format them. Now that it is
in my new machine (Asus board, AMD K6-2/350, kernel 2.2.14)
I cannot write to or format tapes. I am able, however, to
check the status of a preformatted tape using
ftape-tools-1.09.
During tape activity (status checking), if I type cat
/proc/dma, it shows that dma 2 is being used by ftape. cat
/proc/interrupts shows int 6 being used by ftape. cat
/proc/ftape/0/tapedrive produces the following info:
vendor id : 0x0047
drive name: Colorado DJ-10/DJ-20
wind speed: 90 ips
wakeup : Colorado
max. rate : 1000 kbit/sec
used rate : 1000 kbit/sec
cat /proc/ftape/0/controller produces the following info:
FDC_driver: ftape-internal -- driver for internal FDC
controllers (FC-10/FC-20/82078/Ditto EZ)
FDC type : i82077AA
FDC base : 0x3f0
FDC irq : 6
FDC dma : 2
FDC thr. : 8
max. rate : 1000 kbit/sec
rate limit: 4000 kbit/sec
used rate : 1000 kbit/sec
It sure would be nice to be able to use my tape drive
again. I'm really hoping you can help me get this figured
out.
Ron Keller
