[ale] FTAPE

[KeithH]

Hi David,

   First, did you really mean a 8M drive?  Or is it 8G?

   Second, what type of interface does it have?  SCSI?  IDE/ATAPI?  Connects to floppy 
controller?

   If it is SCSI or IDE/ATAPI, then you don't use FTAPE.  It uses the same std driver for 
the interface card as a hard drive would use.

   If it does connect to the floppy controller, then tell me more about the drive.  What's 
the model number?

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith


David Corbin wrote:

> I thought I had this working once before, but apparently not....
> 
> I have a Colorado 8MB Travan drive.  I'm trying to get it to work with
> Linux.  After enabling FTAPE in the kernel, dmesg yields:
> 
> ftape v3.04d 25/11/97 for Linux 2.4.7
> [000] ftape-init.c (ftape_init) - installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware
> drive ... .
> [001] ftape-init.c (ftape_init) - ftape_init @ 0xc02bb120.
> [002]   ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #1 @ c10ac6c0, dma area
> @ c0318000.
> [003]   ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #2 @ c10ac740, dma area
> @ c0008000.
> [004]   ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) - buffer nr #3 @ c10ac7c0, dma area
> @ c0018000.
> [005]   ftape-calibr.c (time_inb) - inb() duration: 636 nsec.
> [006]  ftape-calibr.c (ftape_calibrate) - TC for `ftape_udelay()' = 832 nsec
> (at 10239 counts).
> [007]  ftape-calibr.c (ftape_calibrate) - TC for `fdc_wait()' = 1774 nsec
> (at 5119 counts).
> 
> "ls -lt /dev/qft0" yields:
>  crw-rw----    1 root     disk      27,   0 Aug  7 07:25 /dev/qft0
> 
> but "tar cf /dev/qft0 ." yields:
> tar: /dev/qft0: Cannot open: No such device
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> Any suggestions on what to do to fix this?
> 
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