Re: Red Hat 7 and floppy tape
From: David W.E. Roberts (nospam_at_talk21.com)
Date: 12/07/03
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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:37:40 -0000
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"David W.E. Roberts" <nospam@talk21.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> still on Red Hat 7 at the moment (not touched the system this year but
just
> getting back into using it).
>
> I have a Colorado tape drive which takes MC 3000XL Taumat cartridges and
is
> connected to the floppy controller.
>
> I have a device '/dev/ftape'.
>
> I have tried to query it with the 'mt' command both with a tape in and
with
> a tape out, but I get the following:
>
> mt -f /dev/ftape status
> /dev/ftape: No such device
>
> There is something there:
>
> ls -l /dev/ftape
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Sep 6 2002 /dev/ftape -> qft
>
> So:
>
> (1) is there another command (not 'mt') that I should be using
>
> (2) is there something else I can use to diagnose the floppy tape?
>
> (3) Is there something special I should be doing to enable a floppy tape?
>
> The tape drive was fine under NT4 and the backup command before I cleared
> the discs out and installed Linux, although not used for some time.
> When a tape is inserted the drive makes what sound like the correct
zushing
> sounds as the tape is positioned.
>
> Using Kia X as an X terminal, the colours are different for different /dev
> entries when using 'ls'.
> Most are yellow on black background.
> ftape, stdio and some others are cyan on white.
> video, raw, cpu and some others are dark blue on white
>
> Don't know if this helps.
>
> TIA
> Dave R
Further information; the system is recognising the tape drive at some level.
>From /var/log/messages
"Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: ftape v3.04d 25/11/97
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: (c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven (bas@vimec.nl)
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: (c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen
(khp@dolphinics.no)
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: (c) 1996-1997 Claus-Justus Heine
(claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de)
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020
floppy tape drives
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.4.18-3 with
versioned symbols
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: [000] ftape-init.c (ftape_init) -
installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware drive ... .
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: [001] ftape-init.c (ftape_init) -
ftape_init @ 0xc58c9060.
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: [002] ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) -
buffer nr #1 @ c1d8eab0, dma area @ c04b8000.
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: [003] ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) -
buffer nr #2 @ c1d8edb0, dma area @ c08b0000.
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: [004] ftape-buffer.c (add_one_buffer) -
buffer nr #3 @ c1d8ef30, dma area @ c08a8000.
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: [005] ftape-calibr.c (time_inb) - inb()
duration: 713 nsec.
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: [006] ftape-calibr.c (ftape_calibrate) -
TC for `ftape_udelay()' = 927 nsec (at 10239 counts).
Dec 4 15:24:40 chelodge kernel: [007] ftape-calibr.c (ftape_calibrate) -
TC for `fdc_wait()' = 2010 nsec (at 2559 counts).
"
This is (I think) when I put a cartridge in the tape drive.
However the 'mt' command still insists that /etc/ftape does not exist.
Cheers
Dave R
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