On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 07:23:24AM -0800, Clive Jordan wrote:
> Hi Chaps,
>
> Just call me stupid.
>
> I have been using an iomega ditto max to backup under slackware 3.6 for a
> while. It was a bit flakey at times but did the job ok (with a little
> patience).
>
> In order to get it working properly, I needed a patch for the kernel.
>
> I have moved to slackware 4.0 (kernel 2.2.6) and would like to use the same
> setup. However, I cannot get the beasty to compile. I believe you do not
> need the patch for 2.2 kernels.
>
> I am using Ftape 4.02.
>
> When I compile, it breaks with the message
>
> fdc-io.c: structure has no member named 'timeout'
>
> I have tried compiling under slackware 7.0 and I get the same problem.
>
>
> Am I being termanally stupid or is there a fix for this and I cannot even
> get of the starting blocks here.
>
> I have no soundcard in the machine.
>
> Friedrich, I have just seen your answer to a previous question and think
> that will be very useful although I have an older kernel. Unfortunatley,
> moving to a newer kernel from 2.2.6 is not really an option at the moment.
>
> I feel I need a kernel patch or something as I cannot even compile the ftape
> applications, let alone integrate with the kernel.
>
Yes, but the key to success was in Friedrich's message. You need to
get ftape-4.x-1999_09_11. Ftape-4.02 will not successfully compile on a
2.2 kernel.
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