Using ftape with an Iomega Ditto Max drive

[Dan Sanderson]

I need some assistance getting my Iomega Ditto Max drive to work with RedHat
6.2.

I'm pretty sure I've correctly identified the IO Base, IRQ and DMA of the
drive (0x200, 3, and 0).  I've recompiled the 2.2.14 kernel with ftape
4.02-1.  In make xconfig, ftape section, I set the controller to Alt/82078,
IO base to 200, IRQ to 3, and DMA to 0.  I followed all the compilation
steps, including those for modules and so forth, and properly installed it
and rebooted.

I thought I'd test with the command in the HOWTO, section 7.1.  Simply:
  cd /usr/src
  tar czf /dev/ftape linux

The error is equally simple:
  tar (grandchild): /dev/ftape: Cannot open: No such device
  tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now

So I check:
  ls -l /dev/ftape
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Aug  9  1999 /dev/ftape -> rft0

I also tried tar czf /dev/rawft0 linux, just in case that was it.

This is RedHat 6.2, with everything installed via RPM (except the recompiled
kernel, of course).

It's important that I get this working, this cheap Ditto Max is all I could
afford for a backup solution.  I know I get what I pay for, but I'm told by
every source that it should work just fine.

Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.  Many thanks!

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