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

[James P. Kinney III]

Courtney,

Double check the source directory for ftape. It should have a
MAKEDEV.ftape script that makes the devices qftx and nqftx. That may be
all you need at this point. 

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 15:58, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 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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