get the latest snapshot from the /unstable directory on the ftape website.
I used 1999_02_07 and it works fine under 2.2.3! :)
Barry Zubel
Technical Manager
City Mutual Ltd
www.citymutual.com
-----Original Message-----
From: William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 9:43 AM
Subject: Ditto Max with kernel 2.2
>Hi, folks. I just purchased a Ditto Max and was planning on a really
>smooth installation, but I had the exact opposite. It's not running yet,
>and the best I've been able to do is make it rewind once!
>
>I'm running kernel 2.2.3-ac1. It comes, contrary to what the ftape FAQ
>and HOWTO say, with ftape 3.04b, which doesn't support my drive. Now, I
>download and attempt to compile ftape-4.02, but the compile fails:
>
>fdc-io.c: In function `fdc_interrupt_wait':
>fdc-io.c:409: parse error before `long'
>fdc-io.c:434: structure has no member named `timeout'
>fdc-io.c:455: structure has no member named `timeout'
>make[2]: *** [fdc-io.o] Error 1
>
>I tried all kinds of hacks to try to make things work, but nothing's been
>successful. (Don't worry, I know all of these are real unorthodox and
>hopeless solutions ;> ) In particular I tried using the fdc-io.c and
>fdc-io.h from my kernel with the ftape-4.02 source, patching a copy of
>kernel 2.1.119 with the ftape-4.02 patch for it and then patching the tree
>up to 2.2.3 one patchlevel at a time, hacking the source and changing
>broken-looking things around, ... I still can't make it go.
>
>One possibility is that I downgrade my kernel to 2.0.36 (or pl37 when it
>comes out) and use ftape-4.02 as intended then. I have to rule that out
>because I really, really don't want to downgrade my kernel. :>
>
>I'm sure someone out there must be running a 2.2-series kernel and a Ditto
>Max. Any suggestions on how to make it go?
>
>I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks.
>
>--
>William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>"640k ought to be enough for everyone!"
>
