by I have a dual boot (Mandrake 6.0 and NT4.0 WS) system. It has an Iomega
floppy tape drive which is recognized by NT4.0WS but I am not having
much success with it on the Linux front.
Kernel 2.2.10 with floppy drive built in kernel and ftape built as
module.
In /etc/conf.modules entered the following line
options ftape ft_fdc_irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=2 ft_fdc_base=0x3f0
# modprobe ftape successfully loads the module
# taper -T f is not able to detect the tape drive
Also /proc/ftape does not list the Floppy Disk Controller (see /proc/ftape
file below) but I can use the mtools/mount to for the floppy drive!!
If you have successfully used taper with a floppy tape drive please let
me know what am I missing?
TIA
-- Arun Khan
email is arunkhan at xnet dot com
#cat /proc/ftape
Kernel Driver
version : ftape v3.04d 25/11/97
used data rate: 500 kbit/sec
dma memory : 96 kb
debug messages: noisy
Tape Drive
vendor id : 0x0000
drive name: <NULL>
wind speed: 0 ips
wakeup : Unknown
max. rate : 500 kbit/sec
FDC Controller
FDC type : no fdc
FDC base : 0x000
FDC irq : 0
FDC dma : 0
FDC thr. : 8
max. rate : 500 kbit/sec
Tape Cartridge
uninitialized