This question comes up often on this list. With a 2.2.x kernel, you
need to use either the built-in (ftape-3.04d) or the "unstable" version
of ftape available at
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/unstable/
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 12:06:26AM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> first I'd like to ask you to cc me when replying to my message, since I'm
> not subscribed to this list. I just need your help on the following two
> questions, and since I'm already subscribed to more than half a dozen
> mailing lists I'd like to avoid the additional traffic. Thanks for your
> understanding. I promise that I will post a summary if I get useful replies.
>
> Ok, here's my problems:
>
> I've downloaded ftape-4.02, but for some suspicious reason I can't compile
> it under 2.2.9. I suspect it is due to a change in some internal data
> structure?!
>
> This is the error I get:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory /usr/src/ftape-4.02/ftape/lowlevel'
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce
> -DTHE_FTAPE_MAINTAINER=\"[EMAIL PROTECTED]\" -DCONFIG_FT_PROC_FS
> -DCONFIG_FT_STD_FDC_0 -DCONFIG_FT_INT_0=1 -DCONFIG_FTAPE_MODULE
> -DCONFIG_FT_INTERNAL_MODULE -DCONFIG_FT_TRAKKER_MODULE
> -DCONFIG_FT_BPCK_MODULE -DCONFIG_ZFTAPE_MODULE
> -DCONFIG_ZFT_COMPRESSOR_MODULE -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I. -I../../include
> -I/usr/src/linux/include -m486 -DCPU=486 -c fdc-io.c
> fdc-io.c: In function fdc_interrupt_wait':
> fdc-io.c:433: structure has no member named timeout'
> fdc-io.c:454: structure has no member named timeout'
> make[2]: *** [fdc-io.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/src/ftape-4.02/ftape/lowlevel'
>
> Is there anyone who has been able to compile 4.02 under kernel 2.2.9? Any
> ideas what I could do to get things running?
>
> My other problem is that I can't format tapes. I've tried the most recent
> Debian ftape-util package (1.07-1.1,) and I've fetched the source and
> compiled it myself under the kernel I'm using. However in both cases I only
> get "unknown format API version. Giving up."
>
> Again, I'm clueless. Before I compiled the tools myself I thought Debian's
> version was incompatible with my kernel, but now that I recompiled them
> myself this can't be the reason anymore, can it? Note that I'm currently
> running ftape-3.07 since I can't get 4.02 compiled as I described above.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Ralf
>
>
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