> > > I haven't been able to get ftape 4.02 to run correctly on RH 5.2.
> > > What I need in particular is to get the zqft0 device running
> > > correctly, so that I can restore a backup made using the built-in
> > > compression. If anyone has successfully installed ftape 4.02 on RH 5.2,
> > > can you tell me exactly what you did?
>
> First, the zqft0 device is gone so far a "builtin" support is
> concerned. Claus does provide a "decompressor" module that need to be
> insmodded to read your compressed tapes.
Thanks for responding.
I didn't see any details on this "decompressor" module in the
documentation, so I just assumed that it supported read-only access on
zqft0. Where can I find out more about how to read tapes written with
zqft0 with an earlier version of ftape?
> What kernel are you running?
The one that comes with RedHat 5.2, which appears to be 2.0.36 (from
looking at /var/log/messages.)
> What type of tape drive?
Iomega Ditto 2GB Internal.
> Do you have an accellerator card?
No.
> What is the speed and processor type of your system?
Cyrix Pentium clone, 133MHz (166 MHz equivalent).
> How are you insmodding the ftape modules?
I put the following lines in /etc/conf.modules:
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none
which, according to the documentation, should get the modules
auto-loaded. I have verified that /sbin/kerneld is running.
