Re: iomega ditto external

ok - just me going nuts - i've spent a looong time on this

i got it to work using the debian 'bleeding edge' ftape packages

i had to recompile the kernel with the parallel port support as modules
- wouldnt work otherwise

then had to load parport module

then the ftapetools loaded the other modules up automatically when they
were called



the only comment i can make on the whole subject is this

the documentation *really* needs straightening out for this stuff - i
spent 2 days chasing my tail & following diffenernt versions of
instructions.


James S










On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 21:30, Pete wrote:
> 
> > my kernel (2.4.19) is reporting an irq for the parport
> > i'm using 4.04a ftape
> 
> I didn't think ftape 4.04a would compile on 2.4.x kernels. 4.04a is
> kinda old. The answer there is to use one of the 'snapshots' from the
> ftape website: many people are finding them stable.
> 
> http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/unstable/
> 
> -- 
> Pete Siddall
> [email protected]
> 


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