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Help ? FTAPE fails to initialize

Post by Steve Ada » Wed, 24 Jul 1996 04:00:00



Good morning,
  I have just installed the 2.0.5 kernel, the 2.0.0 modules, etc.  I
compiled ftape 2.08 and tried to: insmod -vVf ftape.o and received the
following messages:

darkstar:/boot# insmod -vVf ftape.o
Version 2.0.0
Section 1: (.text) at 0x400ba010
Section 2: (.rel.text) at 0x8054278
Section 3: (.rodata) at 0x400ccbd0
Section 4: (.rel.rodata) at 0x805f778
Section 5: (.data) at 0x400d26e0
Section 6: (.rel.data) at 0x805fba0
Section 7: (.bss) at 0x400d29c4
Section 9: (.comment) at 0x400d28c8
Section 10: (.shstrtab) at 0x805fbd8
Section 11: (.symtab) at 0x805fc40
Section 12: (.strtab) at 0x8061e68
textseg = 0x400ba008
bss_size = 91052
last byte = 0x400e8d70
module size = 191848
versioned kernel: yes
versioned module: yes
ELF kernel
ELF module
Initialization of ftape failed

 I received the same messages with ftape 2.09.  What have I done wrong ?  
All assistance is appreciated.
                                         Steve

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Help ? FTAPE fails to initialize

Post by Kjetil Ei » Wed, 24 Jul 1996 04:00:00




Quote:> Good morning,
>   I have just installed the 2.0.5 kernel, the 2.0.0 modules, etc.  I
> compiled ftape 2.08 and tried to: insmod -vVf ftape.o and received the
> following messages:

> [deleted]

> Initialization of ftape failed

>  I received the same messages with ftape 2.09.  What have I done wrong ?  
> All assistance is appreciated.

I had the same problem. I recompiled the kernel without qic-02 and
qic-117 support, and now everything seems to work ok.

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1. insmod ftape:Initialization of ftape failed

Hello,

I (and not only me) have sometimes the problem with ftape. insmod ftape
returns the error : Initialization of ftape failed, and mostly i have to
reboot to make it work again. It doesn't matter if the tape is in or out
the drive when it happens, sometimes just waiting a while is just enough.
I don't acces the floppydrive before/during using the tape if that
matters. And i didn't test it to compile ftape NOT as a module, maybe that
could help don't know yet.
At least when a tape is inserted the tapedrive starts to rewind/position
the tape, this is weather the loading of ftape fails or not.

The tapedrive installed is a Seagate 400/800MB (on floppycontroller) which
kan handle also 120/240MB tapes, but the problem also exists with a
120/240MB drive (don't know the brand of that one).when the tape is
inserted the tapedrive starts to rewind/position the tape

I'm currently using kernel 2.0.30 but i noticed before at least with the
2.0.X kernels.

Any ideas?

Arjan Filius

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