: From: Bob Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:25:53 -0500
:
: I have studied all of the HOWTO, etc I can find but do not see how to enable
: a Colorado Trakker 250 going.
: I assume at this point it is an option line for the conf.modules...
: I have Red Hat 6.0. mt and tar both say device does not exist, but
: /dev/rfto and /dev/ftape do exist.
:
: Any help where I may turn next would be appreciated.
I suppose you didn't download the latest ftape. You need at least
ftape-4 (the ftape in the official kernel is still ftape-3 and doesn't
support parallel port tapes). For 2.2.xx kernels you need the latest
'unstable' stuff. Ignore the name - they're stable.
The drivers are at:
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/unstable/
or
ftp://www.estinc.com/pub/linux/
The tools are at:
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-tools/unstable/
or
ftp://ftp.estinc.com/pub/linux/
Jochen
