From: kem@prl.ufl.edu (Kelly Murray) Subject: Re: help: linux & wangtek en5099-24 tape Date: 8 Oct 1993 19:06:37 GMT
In article <750019614.AA06847@csource.oz.au>, cas@csource.oz.au (Craig Sanders) writes:
|> i've installed linux into a 100mb partition on my hard disk for testing,
|> experimenting & configuring - when i'm happy with the way it works then it gets
|> the whole disk to itself...
|>
|> details:
|>
|> wangtek en5099-24 60MB tape drive
|> Wangtek PC-36 controller card (IRQ:5, DMA:1, PORT:300)
|> SLS 1.03 (series a,b,c disks only)
|>
|> i can't get tar or mt to access the tape drive. i've recompiled the kernel to
|> make sure that the qic-02 support is installed, and got rid of some of the
|> stuff i didn't need (like SCSI drivers, -m486 flag etc). then i moved the old
|> /zImage to /old.zImage and copied the newly compiled zImage to /
|>
|> i don't even see any message which could be the qic02 driver being loaded at
|> boot time.
|>
I have this tape drive working on one of my machines (SLS 1.01).
If you don't get any messages at boot time about the tape drive,
then the kernel you're booting is not configured with the qic02 device driver.
It sounds like you're still booting the old kernel. You need to
use lilo to install it -- just creating a new /zImage won't do.
You should create a new kernel on a floppy disk, and boot off the floppy
first to test things out -- don't clobber your working kernel
on your hard-drive until your sure it's working from the floppy.
Look at the Makefile in /usr/src/linux.
Hope this helps,
Kelly