i can confirm carl's advice. get the new modutils. solved my problems.
-sadhu
At 11:20 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Carl J. Nobile wrote:
>Hi Peter,
>
>>From your lsmod listing you don't have one of the drive specific
>drivers loaded. Depending on which drive you have you need to
>load either bpck-fdc.o, trakker.o, or internal.o. Unless you have
>tapes that used zft-compressor.o from an old release of ftape you
>won't need it since ftape no longer can compress data.
>
>You will also need to install the following:
>
>The modules-2.0.0 utility package has some serious flaws and it
>won't work with ftape-internal. Get the newer modutils-2.1.85 that
>is used with kernel 2.1.x. You can get it at:
>
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/
>
>The docs with the package says it won't compile without a
>kernel 2.1.x header files, but it worked with no problems with my
>2.0.35 kernel header files.
>
>Carl
>
>On 08-Jan-99 Peter Spiess wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have installed ftape ver. 4.02 (kernel 2.0.35).
>> Now I have a problem and hope, someone can help me.
>>
>> After loading the modules, lsmod show the following:
>>
>> server:/home/peter # lsmod
>> Module Pages Used by
>> zft-compressor 5 0
>> zftape 15 [zft-compressor] 0
>> ftape 26 [zft-compressor zftape] 0 (autoclean)
>
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>E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 09-Jan-99
>Time: 23:15:00
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