Well, that's a relief (for now, at least). I'm not all that impressed
with the drive, but that's another story....
Bob
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 03:06:56PM -0700, Tim Jones wrote:
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > I have an Iomega Ditto Easy 3200 with the Ditto Dash 2 MB/s accelerator
> > card and have had no problems with ftape-3.04d. After reading this
> > thread, I recompiled the 2.2.6 kernel w/o tape support and installed
> > ftape-4.x-1999_03_29. I have tried over and over and mostly the drive
> > seems to be recognized but I can't get any operations to actually
> > execute. I keep getting messages like:
> >
> > ftmt: /dev/nqft0: Input/output error
> >
> > I checked the /proc entries and /proc/ftape/0/cartridge reported:
> >
> > cartridge not formatted
> >
> > However this cartridge worked fine with ftape-3.04d. Trying to format
> > gives:
> >
> > Unknown format API version. Giving up.
> >
> > Any ideas before I give up and return to 3.04d?
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 12:02:27PM -0700, Tim Jones wrote:
> > > Rodney,
> > >
> > > Nope - those are still 3.04d. Please answer NO to the kernel configure
> > > optiosn for ftape and grab the latest version from Claus' site. They
> > > will still be modules, but they work a lot better. The main secret - do
> > > not use the ftape drivers in the kernel tree.
> > >
> > > Tim
> >
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>
> Bob,
>
> Honestly, yours is a case where upgrading doesn't really buy you
> anything. The latest version is only required for the newer drives (the
> Pertec being one of them). Your Ditto Easy 3200 was one of the first
> drives that properly worked under 3.04d in the TR-3 family.
>
> Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
>
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