I should probably have thought of this sooner. Suspecting
that perhaps my tape drive does not like something about the
on-board FDC on tis ASUS m/b, I disabled the on-borad FDC.
I added an FDC to the ISA bus, and now my tape drive works.
It uses the same I/O port, address, IRQ, and DMA as the
on-board controller used, but instead of writing to tape at
1000 kbit per sec., it writes at 500 kbit per sec. It'is
slower, but it will do until I can get a real tape drive.
Ron Keller
Ron Keller wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
>
> 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
