Re: trakker 450 install problem follow up

dashielljt wrote:
> The drive itself says trakker 450 on it and hooks to the parallel tape
> drive and uses qic 80 tapes.  This t1000e identification is a puzzle to me
> too.  I've downloaded link 98 and 127 so have the latest version and docs
> and will try building all of this on slackware 8.0 a little later today.
> Thanks.

I have here an internal Colorado T1000 at /dev/qft0 and a parallel port 
Colorado Trakker 250 at /dev/qft1.  As Jochen told you, the stable 
drivers do not support parallel port units, so you will need to get and 
compile the development drivers.

You will also need to put appropiate entries in your /etc/modules.conf 
file. My entries for the *development* drivers look someting like

---- snip ---------------
options parport_pc irq=auto
alias char-major-27     zftape
options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,trakker,none,none
options ftape-internal ft_fdc_base=0x3f0 ft_fdc_irq=6 ft_fdc_dma=2
pre-install ftape-internal /usr/bin/swapout 15
---- snip ---------------

Some systems seem not to require the first line. Also if you provide 
info on the information displayed by the driver when loading might help.

I also hope your kernel does not have ftape support compiled built-in. 
If 'yes' you will need to recompile a kernel without ftape.

If kernel ftape support is compiled as modules, be careful after 
installation, since the kernel places the ftape modules in a different 
place than development ftape, resulting in mixed dependencies between 
new and old modules being generated by 'depmod -a', breaking things. You 
might need to carefully move the old modules to a safe place outside the 
/lib/modules hierarchy and rerun depmod -a.

Cheers,

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