Are you using the accelerator card? When I installed the accelerator card,
I had to change the IRQ jumper to IRQ 6 and it worked (well, I can
supposedly write to the tape but I cannot read it). Keep an eye on
/var/log/messages for good nuggets of info...
-Chuck
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Markus Treinen wrote:
> OK, I finally managed to get ftape compiled. now I can use the modules
> "ftape.o", "zftape.o" and "bpck-fdc.o". That are the only ones needed for my
> Ditto. ftape and zftape load ok, without any errors. Then comes bpck-fdc. If
> I specify the wrong base address, it says, that it got a bad response. If I
> specify the right base address, it says, that it read the right response
> (0x40, I think). Then it tries to probe the IRQ, I think, but it fails on
> that and prints "no irq found". This also happens, if I specify an IRQ with
> insmod. I also tried to "echo "7" > /dev/parport/0/irq", but that had no
> effect on the probing. When my kernel starts up, it detects the ParaPort on
> 0x278, but doesn't print an IRQ. I think, the problem is, that my parport
> doesn't have an irq?!? In my BIOS, I can enter the base address and type
> (SPP, ECP, ECP+EPP), but no irq.
> Anybody with the same problem, or anybody who has a clue? Using the
> trakker.o-module was even worse. bpck should work, but how can I convince
> him to use an irq?
> Thanks a bunch!!
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