[ale] when attempting to use ftape, floppy is accessed ratherthan parallel port device, huh ?.........

[James P. Kinney III]

Does lpd have a printer defined to use the lpt0 port? That would start
at boot up and claim the device so that the ftape device can't see the
tape drive attached.

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 00:31, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Under RH7.2 [2.4.17] when I.........
> 
> 	mt -f /dev/nqft0 status
> I get...............................
> 
> 	no such device
> 
> I have an external Ditto Max Pro which worked under RH6.1 [2.2.12-20]
> installed by cable to the only parallel port on this machine. 
> 
> I have compiled and installed ftape4.04a from source, as well as
> ftape-tools.
> 
> I load parport, paride, ftape, zftape and bpck modules before the mt
> command.
> 
> The parallel port is at 0x378 and irq 7.
> 
> Thank you for helping,
> 
> Courtney
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