[Sussex] ftape, HP Colorado T3000 and kernel 2.4.18

Steve Williams sdp.williams at btinternet.com
Thu Jul 15 16:58:35 UTC 2004


Matthew,

Might you need to enable a second floppy device (drive b:) in the BIOS,
or am I being too simple?

Steve Williams.


On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 17:35, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm trying to get the above to work, however I've hit a small problem.
> :D
> 
> I've compiled the ftape/zftape modules into the kernel and they're
> loading fine, the issue is that there are no devices created under /dev
> and when I try any of the commands such as ftformat and ftmt, I just get
> the error "/dev/tape does not exist"
> 
> Anyone any idea what's going on? :p
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> 
> Matt
> 
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