I have the same tape as you and I still haven't got it to work. But I'am
advencing a little bit every day.
The version 4.02 won't compile under kernel 2.2.x. It would be nice if
somebody would update the documentation about this. You have to get the
latest version which is marked unstable (ftape-4.x-1999_09_11), which I
did. It's compiling just fine for me (kernel 2.2.13).
I still have a bit of work to do before being able to get the tape
working.
Danny Gagne
Fabio Lissandrini wrote:
>
> I have a Iomega Ditto Max on my linux server, and I'm trying to install
> ftape in order to access to it.
> I had some difficulties in this.
> The versions involved are: ftape: 4.02; linux kernel: 2.2.13
> It seems to me that the ftape version 4.02 is not made for being built
> under 2.2.x kernel: in fact:
> 1) compiling the modules, I got in some points an error regarding a
> member ("timeout") of a structure (that I found is "task_struct",
> defined in <include_dir>/linux/sched.h). The error makes impossible to
> build the modules. I tried to bypass the problem modifying the include
> file (adding a "timeout" field in "task_struct"), but this is not the
> correct way to proceed!
> 2) the structure of version 4.02 is different from that of version 3:
> so, even substituting the version shipped with the kernel with the 4.02,
> running "make menuconfig" brings to an error in the make procedure. Even
> the kernel symbols are different.
>
> On the other hand, as I know, ftape 3.xx is not able to drive ditto max
> streamer.
> Could anyone help me?
>
> Thank you
> Fabio Lissandrini
