Originally, I thought I had a SCSI tape drive because that was what I ordered (silly me), but I discovered that what I thought was a SCSI card is really a floppy controller card (FC-20). I removed it because I could not get any response from it, and connected the tape drive to the floppy cable. I downloaded ftape. The only change I made in the MCONFIG file was to select CONFIG_M586=y (The machine is a pre-MMX P-166).
"make" and "make install" seemed to run without any problems. As instructed, I typed "modprobe zftape ; modeprobe zft-compressor", and then went on to "Testing the Driver". "ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status" recognized that it is a Colorado 1400 tape drive, and printed a bunch of stuff. "ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 reten" seemed to work ok also. When I tried "tar -cvf /dev/nqft0 ./ftape/zftape/", it printed some of the file names on the screen, and then just stopped. After about 20 minutes, I killed the process. It did not appear to write anything to the tape. Next, I tried "ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 rewind". It appeared to rewind the tape, but I did not get the $ prompt back, and ps -a shows the process still running. The process did not die until I removed the tape. The "ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status" command does not print anything, and seems to just hang also. Kill only worked after I removed the tape. The "status" command worked again after I used the "reset" command. I checked the ftape website, but did not find anything helpful. I have a Colorado 1400 tape drive connected to my Debian Linux server 2.0.6. I downloaded ftape just last week. Thanks, Chris Oddo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
