On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 09:23:00AM -0700, poke wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am having a very tough time even getting anything from my drive (even a
> status light other than when I boot or stick a tape in would be nice). I
> am very new to ftape and it is probably something I am overlooking. Has
> anyone gotten an "Iomega ditto Easy 3200" internal floppy drive working?
> Are there any known incompatibilities with this unit?
>
> I am using Red Hat 6.0 with 2.2.5-22 kernel. I assume that the version of
> ftape included with the kernel should work. I did a modprobe and ftape.o
> and zftape.o are listed. The physical drive is brand new. The machine
> boots fine (which means I don't have the cable on backwards right???) and
> goes through it's hoops just fine when I insert a new tape.
I'm using one of these with few problems using the built-in ftape-3.04d
with kernel 2.2.12 (it's not really a quality device, however).
Are the modules actually loaded? What does 'modprobe -l' or 'cat
/proc/modules' show? I show just the zft-compressor module.
>
> I used "taper" and every device I give it gives me an illegal device
> error. I tried ftape-tool.tcl and the status button always gives me a
> "ftmt:/dev/nqft*: No such device", where * represents all the devices I
> tried (0-3).
What does 'ls -al /dev/nqft*' show? Do the devices exist? If not, you
should create them (man MAKEDEV for more information).
I've had a lot of trouble with taper and switched to tob. The ftmt
commands should work, however.
>
> Can someone give me some insight as to what I am doing wrong?
>
> P..S. I tried compiling 4.02 and I always get the following:
>
> fdc-io.c: In function `fdc_interrupt_wait':
> fdc-io.c:433: structure has no member named `timeout'
> fdc-io.c:454: structure has no member named `timeout'
> make[2]: *** [fdc-io.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ftape-4.02/ftape/lowlevel'
> make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ftape-4.02/ftape'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> I even tried ftape-4.03-pre-2 just to see if anything different would
> happen and I got the same make error. Normally I would hack the code and
> fix the problem, but I have a feeling that it is something I am doing
> wrong since it's been out for a while and many people have probably
> successfully compiled it.
>
4.02 and some of the 4.03 versions don't compile under 2.2.x kernels.
Use the latest "unstable" version instead (but 3.04d should work with
that device.)
Bob
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