On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:09:48AM +0000, Tom Fleischman wrote:
> Hello -
> I am running Redhat v5.2 (Apollo) with Kernel v2.2.2 on a HP Kayack
> 266 Mhz PII with an Iomega Ditto 2gb tape drive which I am attempting
> to put to use with ftape v4.02.
Hello, you need a more recent version of ftape:
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/unstable/
Don't mind the word "unstable" - they do work.
> OK, so now I'm ready to compile and install ftape v4.02. I edit the
> MCONFIG file and yes, my kernel source is at /usr/src/linux and the
> file .config is in the LINUX_LOCATION. I select CONFIG_M686=y.
> Now this is where I get a little confused. This drive is piggybacked
> on the parallel port but I have nothing other than my floppy disk
> drive located on the FDC. I think I'm going to need the Micro
> Solutions Backpack driver and nothing else, right?
Yes, I would say so, although I myself know only a bit about ditto max...
> But I don't have a standard floppy tape controller, only a floppy disk
> drive, so I comment this out as I have above. I also comment out
well, you certainly have such a controller, but it doesn't matter regarding
your tape drive. You can leave it commented out, but this is not really
a necessary configuration step.
> structure has no member named `timeout'
>fdc-io.c:454: structure
> has no member named `timeout' make[2]: ***
>[fdc-io.o] Error 1
yes, this is really a known result - please upgrade.
Good luck,
Juergen.
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