I am trying to install ftape-4.03-pre-2 on RedHat 5.2 (Linux 2.0.36) and
I am trying to get my new Ditto Max drive working. The system is a IBM
Thinkpad 385DX, and I have the tape drive plugged into the parallel
port at the back. I did rebuild the kernel before I started trying to
get ftape to work (/usr/src/linux exists), but I didn't put the patch
into the kernel as discussed in ftape.
My /etc/conf.modules is
alias char-major-27 zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none
And I inserted the modules.
However, when I try to access the tape using
tar cvf /dev/qft0 - (I chmod'ed the /dev files)
I get an error that the operation isn't supported. I tried other
things (probing the modules, etc.), and the LCD monitor went blank and
the system crashed.
When I executed
cd ./modules;. insert
I got an error that the parport module wasn't installed.
But the docs say my kernel doesn't support it.
Is there something else I can check? Any advice?
