On Mon Dec 28 at 10:32 "John J. Boris, Sr." pondered:
>Hi folks,
>I found the subject ftape rpms and was wondering has anyone used these? I
>have a Ditto Max and Ditto Dash card installed. I downloaded the rpms and
>installed them without any error messages. But I get a operation not
>supported when I try to test the setup. The question I have (which
>probably sounds stupid) is how do I get ftape to know that my Ditto Max is
>connected to the Ditto Dash? All of the tests say to point to /dev/qft0 and
>I never created that device.
>Thanks in advance.
John,
I don't know about the RPMS, but I just used the loadable
module stuff on:
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
Also if you are using the ditto dash card you will need some
isapnp tools.
I have a set on:
http://www.BreszLand.COM/fpb/download/
There is a set of isapnp tools, along with my modules.conf
and isapnp.conf files. Feel free to grab them and utilize them.
There may be a more official place, but I can't remember where I
snarfed them from, so there they are.
Also be aware that you will need at least a P166 machine to run
the tape drive. I can't remember who noted that, but I had the
drive in a P75 and was getting constant data overruns and such.
Stuck the whole kit and kaboodle in the P233 with the exact
same kernel and configs and bingo, it all worked.
Many on this list have noted that it is better to simply compile
ftape out of the kernel and build the ftape stuff separately
and load it up, I definitely concur with this theory.
Enjoy.
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- Frank P. Bresz }*{
