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

[Courtney Thomas]

Thanks Jim.

I killed lpd and tried "mt -f /dev/nqft0 status" and still got "no such 
device".

I don't have a printer attached to this machine.

pnpdump doesn't show port 0x378 at all, though dmesg does show parport 
at 0x378.

How else can I tell if lpd is defined in some way to encumber lpt0 port ?

Again appreciatively,
Courtney





James P. Kinney III wrote:

> 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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