Am Son, 16 Jan 2000 schrieb Stewart Wilkinson:
> Hi,
>
> At the present time I'm using a Redhat 5.2 based system with Kernel 2.0.36
> for my AX25 System. This machine has a HP COLORADO 250 tape backup device
> installed.
>
> A few weeks ago I tried to use this Tape device (and another Travan 3
> device) with Redhat 6.0 / 6.1 Releases, but All I ever got was messages
> like:
>
> /dev/ftape no such device.
You might need to create the device special file.
>
> and lots of messages in the log files. (I don't currently have the device
> fitted in my Redhat 6.1 system and can't remember exactly what the
> messages were).
>
>
> Anyone managed to get a FTAPE device working under Redhat 6.0/6.1 that may
> be able to shed some light on what I'm doing wrong ?
>
The kernel ftape is quite outdated. There are patches bringing it up to date.
There is a ftape mailing list on vger, too.
Oliver Neukum
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> Stewart Wilkinson (G0LGS)
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