Using ftape with an Iomega Ditto Max drive

[Dan Sanderson]

BTW, this is an internal Ditto Max drive with an accelerator card.  I heard
somewhere that it'd work easily but extremely slowly if I plug the drive
straight into the floppy interface instead of the PCI card, but I'd rather
try to figure this out with the card.

And I already know about http://www.LinuxTapeCert.org , which appears to be
a great resource for this kind of thing, if it helps anyone else.

Thanks!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dan Sanderson - mail at dansanderson.com - http://www.dansanderson.com/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Sanderson" <mail at dansanderson.com>
To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 2:06 AM
Subject: Using ftape with an Iomega Ditto Max drive


>
> 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!
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dan Sanderson - mail at dansanderson.com - http://www.dansanderson.com/
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>