Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 May 1996 10:37:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | ftape, 1.3.93, dmaalloc() |
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Hello fellow Linux users,
Can anyone shed some light on this matter? I'm having a problem with ftape compiled as a module, under 1.3.93. Background: normally, it works great. I've made and read several backups under this same setup. My only previous annoyance was a message in logfiles generated by ftape.o upon first insertion (by kerneld) that FDC could not be locked (or something similar). I'm guessing it's because my floppy driver is compiled as a module as well(?)
Anyway, the REAL problem is this: last night I made a backup. When I accessed my tape drive, the module wouldn't load. It complained three times (I tried four times) about dmaalloc() unsuccessful, then it loaded and I made a backup. Today, when I tried to review that backup, it did the same thing, except now I can't get the module loaded at all (manual or not) and I've tried many many times. No other modules have any problems, and I use them exclusively. I have plenty of ram. The machine has been up for about 9 days.
Here is some of my logging output..[from different logs] May 1 10:22:22 eternity kernel: (c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen (khp@pip.dknet.dk) May 1 10:22:22 eternity kernel: QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020 tape drives May 1 10:22:22 eternity kernel: Compiled for kernel version 1.3.93 May 1 10:22:22 eternity kernel: [000] kernel-interface.c (ftape_init) - dmaalloc() failed. May 1 10:23:00 eternity kernel: ftape-2.08 960314 May 1 10:23:00 eternity kernel: (c) 1993-1995 Bas Laarhoven (bas@vimec.nl) May 1 10:23:00 eternity kernel: (c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen (khp@pip.dknet.dk) May 1 10:23:00 eternity kernel: QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020 tape drives May 1 10:23:00 eternity kernel: Compiled for kernel version 1.3.93 May 1 10:23:00 eternity kernel: [000] kernel-interface.c (ftape_init) - dmaalloc() failed.
May 1 10:15:30 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:16:07 eternity last message repeated 4 times May 1 10:16:49 eternity last message repeated 4 times May 1 10:18:12 eternity last message repeated 3 times May 1 10:19:19 eternity last message repeated 7 times May 1 10:19:46 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:21:01 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:22:22 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:23:00 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed
May 1 10:15:30 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:16:07 eternity last message repeated 4 times May 1 10:16:49 eternity last message repeated 4 times May 1 10:18:12 eternity last message repeated 3 times May 1 10:19:19 eternity last message repeated 7 times May 1 10:19:46 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:21:01 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:22:22 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:23:00 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed
[last night's load of ftape is these first two lines] May 1 00:22:45 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 00:23:22 eternity last message repeated 3 times May 1 10:15:30 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:16:41 eternity last message repeated 6 times May 1 10:17:44 eternity last message repeated 4 times May 1 10:18:12 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:19:46 eternity last message repeated 8 times May 1 10:21:01 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:22:22 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed May 1 10:23:00 eternity insmod: Initialization of ftape failed
Thanks for any input you can give me. I'm going to upgrade to 1.3.latest sometime soon.
-Bryan -- # B. James Phillippe # System Administrator, eternity.aa.net # # bryan@eternity.aa.net (see http://eternity.aa.net/~bryan) # # System Technician, SSC., Inc. (Linux Journal; www.ssc.com) # # Specializing in UNIX, Linux, Internet and networking stuff #
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