John C Cusick wrote:
> Good day to all,
>
> I am not a subscriber to this list and I hope the following
> is appropriate. If not, my apologies now.
>
There is no place like this place anywhere near this place, so this must be
the place. ;-)
> I have been using Linux at home for over 3.5 years with
> no tape backups because I have been lucky with hardware
> and lucky with choosing the proper OS.
>
> I don't expect my luck with hardware to continue much longer.
You have been tempting Murphy's Law for 3.5 years. Good thing you were not
running that Binary Only Operating System.
> I presently run kernel 2.2.10 and have an iomega 800M parallel
> port drive and do not see the obvious setup within the kernel for
> this type (based on the info in the source it looks like 3.xx ftape).
>
> I downloaded ftape-4.03 (pre1 I think - I'm doing this from memory
> as I'm not at home with the system) and attempted to compile it for
> the iomega as modules.
>
> In /lowlevel fdc-io.c i recieved an error that said timeout was not part
> of
> structure fdc_interrupt_? (again, all from memory). I read fdc-io.h and
> fdc-io.c and see time and not timeout as part of the function.
Your memory is very good. Those are exactly the symptoms you should expect
to get when trying to compile old ftape suites and using old ftape-tools
with 2.2.x kernels. What you will need to do is go to URL:
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/development.html
and get the latest "unstable" stuff. You will find it is stable enough.
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