On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Douglas Bollinger wrote:
> >I previously had this drive working with the stock RedHat install, but in
> >order to get ftformat to work I attempted an upgrade. 4.02 did not
> >compile, so I went to the latest, greatest, ftape:
>
> By the way, you probably could have gotten ftformat to work by using the
> ftape tools included with the ftape-3.04d.tar.gz tarball. As you found out,
> the newer versions of ftformat are not compatable with the ftape modules
> included with RH6.0. The newer versions of ftape are nicer, anyway.
>
> >ftape-4.x-1999_09_11
> >RH 6.1 Fresh 2.2.13 kernel installed
> >Used the kernel-inclusion scripts from ftape
>
> What scripts are this? When I compiled the 2.2.13 kernel, I just disabled
> the ftape inside the kernel tree with menuconfig and compiled the modules
> from the tarball. Is this what you did? Are you referring to the
> conf.module lines?
When you say "I just disabled the ftape" do you mean you selected it as a
module (M) or select no (N)?
I am trying to install ftape on a Iomega Ditto Max on a Debian system and
I have never wasted so much time. I am now downloading the
ftape-4.x-1999_09_11.tar.gz hoping to have a better luck.
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