First, let me say that I'm thrilled to see 2.1.124 boot on my Alpha
Avanti box with TGA framebuffer. Tux looks great! :) One of the reasons
I've really wanted to get 2.1.x running on this system is to use my old
QIC-117 ftape drive. This is the same one I used to use on my Linux/x86
box all the time for backups. Not exactly modern backup equipment, but
beats the heck out of floppies. Anyway, ftape for Alpha in 2.0 is
non-existant. It compiles and loads (as module) on 2.1.x, but I can't get
it to work. I manually load the ftape, zftape and zft-compressor modules.
Here is a sample of kernel logs:
Oct 4 21:19:58 earth kernel: Linux version 2.1.124 (bryan@earth) (gcc version egcs-2.91.56 19980829 (egcs-1.1 pre-release)) #17 Sun Oct 4 19:28:58 PDT 1998
Oct 4 21:19:58 earth kernel: Booting on Avanti using machine vector Avanti
Oct 4 21:28:26 earth kernel: ftape v3.04d 25/11/97
Oct 4 21:36:37 earth kernel: zftape for ftape v3.04d 25/11/97
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [000] fdc-io.c (fdc_config) - fdc base: 0x3f0, irq: 6, dma: 2.
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [001] fdc-isr.c (fdc_isr) - unexpected stray interrupt.
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [002] fdc-io.c (fdc_command) - fdc_write timeout, retry.
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [003] fdc-io.c (fdc_command) - fdc_write timeout, retry.
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [004] fdc-io.c (fdc_command) - fdc_write timeout, retry.
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [005] fdc-io.c (fdc_command) - fdc_write timeout, fatal.
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [006] fdc-io.c (fdc_issue_command) - fdc_ready_out_wait(500 ) failed: -83.
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [007] fdc-io.c (fdc_sense_interrupt_status) - fdc_issue_command(out, 1, in, 2) failed: -83.
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [008] fdc-io.c (fdc_reset) - sense failed for 3.
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [009] fdc-io.c (fdc_command) - fdc not ready.
Oct 4 21:36:46 earth kernel: [010] fdc-io.c (fdc_command) - fdc not ready.
....[ more of same deleted ]....
Does anyone have any ideas?
thanks,
-bp
-- B. James Phillippe . bryan@terran.org UNIX Software Engineer . http://www.terran.org/~bryan Member since 1.1.59 . finger:bryan@earth.terran.org MOTM: Waiting for the DSL to go in :)
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