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6.4.1.5: Complete examples for `/etc/conf.modules'

The following table tries to give some complete example setups. Don't copy these examples unmodified. You have to adjust the IO address, IRQ channel and DMA channel to the proper values for your hardware setup.


Single internal tape drive
# load ftape/zftape automatically
alias char-major-27 zftape
# user ftape-internal.o for /dev/qft0
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none
# use standard fdc controller.
options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x3f0 ft_fdc_irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=2
# make sure to have enough swap space
pre-install ftape-internal /usr/local/bin/swapout 15

swapout is only available on your system if you installed the ftape-tools package. Also `/usr/local/bin/' only reflects the default installation path of swapout and may be different on your system. See Optional utilities.


Single Colorado Trakker parallel port tape drive
# load ftape/zftape automatically
alias char-major-27 zftape
# user trakker.o for /dev/qft0
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=trakker,none,none,none
# no special options required for the trakker.o module

Single Backpack compatible parallel port tape drive
# load ftape/zftape automatically
alias char-major-27 zftape
# user bpck-fdc.o for /dev/qft0
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none
# no special options required for the bpck-fdc.o module

Auto-probe for either Trakker or BackPack
# load ftape/zftape automatically
alias char-major-27 zftape
# user trakker or bpck-fdc for /dev/qft0
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=trakker:bpck-fdc,none,none,none
# no special options required for the trakker.o or bpck-fdc.o module

Internal and parallel port tape drives

The following line should be used when you have an internal floppy tape drive installed and want to be able to use a parallel port tape drive as well. This example auto-probes for either a Colorado Trakker tape drive or a Backpack tape drive at the parallel port tape drive. As it seems that the internal Iomega Ditto Max can't be used with other ftape devices than `/dev/qft0' this example configures ftape to use `/dev/qft0' for the internal tape drive.

# load ftape/zftape automatically
alias char-major-27 zftape
# user ftape-internal.o for /dev/qft0 and trakker.o or bpck-fdc.o for /dev/qft1
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,trakker:bpck-fdc,none,none
# use standard fdc controller.
options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x3f0 ft_fdc_irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=2
# make sure to have enough swap space
pre-install ftape-internal /usr/local/bin/swapout 15
# no special options required for the trakker.o or bpck-fdc.o module

swapout is only available on your system if you installed the ftape-tools package. Also `/usr/local/bin/' only reflects the default installation path of swapout and may be different on your system. See Optional utilities.


Totally fudged out setup

Assume you are crazy and have two internal tape drives which should be used with `/dev/qft0' and `/dev/qft2', and have a Colorado Trakker parallel port tape drive which is glued to `/dev/qft1' and several other parallel port tape drives floating around (either Colorado Trakker or with the Micro Solutions BackPack interface) which optionally might be used with `/dev/qft3', then the following over-kill setup is appropriate (but why didn't you buy a DAT tape drive as backup medium in this case???)

alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,trakker,ftape-internal,trakker:bpck-fdc
options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x3f0 ft_fdc_irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=2
pre-install ftape-internal /usr/local/bin/swapout 15

swapout is only available on your system if you installed the ftape-tools package. Also `/usr/local/bin/' only reflects the default installation path of swapout and may be different on your system. See Optional utilities.


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