Package: wnpp Severity: normal The current maintainer of ftape, Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, has orphaned this package. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package: Package: ftape Binary: ftape-source Version: 4.04a.x.2002.03.21-0.2 Priority: extra Section: utils Maintainer: Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: cpio Architecture: i386 alpha Standards-Version: 3.5.6 Format: 1.0 Directory: pool/main/f/ftape Files: 09c0d79d67565d8d08677cc03f6c5009 606 ftape_4.04a.x.2002.03.21-0.2.dsc 1c7322d205707af79c0d7fb0ec9c45b0 397900 ftape_4.04a.x.2002.03.21.orig.tar.gz 9f273f33a6ac41525e826d7d27edf103 11506 ftape_4.04a.x.2002.03.21-0.2.diff.gz Package: ftape-source Priority: extra Section: utils Installed-Size: 548 Maintainer: Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: ftape Version: 4.04a.x.2002.03.21-0.2 Depends: make, debconf Recommends: dpkg-dev Suggests: kernel-package Filename: pool/main/f/ftape/ftape-source_4.04a.x.2002.03.21-0.2_i386.deb Size: 451216 MD5sum: 6ed94a46b2e9f918a46e2641b4907775 Description: Bleeding Edge floppy tape driver (source) A substitution for the stock ftape driver in the kernel. If you want to use a floppy tape drive with a 2.0.x kernel you should definitly use these sources instead of the stock ftape driver in the kernel. This driver detects and supports many more tape drives than the 2.0.x driver which is ancient. Compared to the 2.2.x stock ftape driver the difference is reduced to support for the Iomega Ditto Max, parallel port floppy tapes (Colorado Trakker, Iomega, Exabyte and Seagate parallel port drives) and multiple tape drives in one box. . Supported drives according to upstream README: "Currently, the driver supports many QIC-40/QIC-80/QIC-3010/QIC-3020 tape drives that conform to the respective QIC-* development standards, as well as the Iomega Ditto 2GB and Max drives. . Some parallel port tape drives are also supported, too. These are the Colorado Trakker and several kinds of parallel port drives that use the Micro Solutions' "Backpack" protocol, i.e. the Iomega Ditto parallel port drives, and some parallel port floppy tape drives made by Exabyte and Seagate." . Please note that the kernel sources must be installed to compile these modules. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
