Bob,
Since you have gone to effort of building the latest ftape release, you now
need the latest ftape-tools release....
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/%7Eheine/ftape/archives/ftape-tools/unstable
the 3-17 release was missing a few make files... here is how I fixed it:
The first problem I detected was that the doc/etc directory was not
provided with a Makefile.in
Using automake, I was able to get past this problem.
The next thing was that _all_ of the Makefile's in the doc tree had
SHELL=@SHELL@ rather than SHELL=/bin/sh
After fixing this in the various subdirectories of doc, the tools
made
succesfully.
I realize now that the SHELL=@SHELL@ was looking for my environment setting,
but it just would not work... My environment does include SHELL=/bin/bash
Hope this gets you going.
Perry
Tim Jones wrote:
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > I have an Iomega Ditto Easy 3200 with the Ditto Dash 2 MB/s accelerator
> > card and have had no problems with ftape-3.04d. After reading this
> > thread, I recompiled the 2.2.6 kernel w/o tape support and installed
> > ftape-4.x-1999_03_29. I have tried over and over and mostly the drive
> > seems to be recognized but I can't get any operations to actually
> > execute. I keep getting messages like:
> >
> > ftmt: /dev/nqft0: Input/output error
> >
> > I checked the /proc entries and /proc/ftape/0/cartridge reported:
> >
> > cartridge not formatted
> >
> > However this cartridge worked fine with ftape-3.04d. Trying to format
> > gives:
> >
> > Unknown format API version. Giving up.
> >
> > Any ideas before I give up and return to 3.04d?
> >
> > Bob
>
> Bob,
>
> Honestly, yours is a case where upgrading doesn't really buy you
> anything. The latest version is only required for the newer drives (the
> Pertec being one of them). Your Ditto Easy 3200 was one of the first
> drives that properly worked under 3.04d in the TR-3 family.
>
> Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
>
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