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ftape-2.05 on sunsite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Jan 13 17:32:37 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 13:35:25 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: khp@pip.dknet.dk (Kai Harrekilde-Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: ftape-2.05 on sunsite
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.system
Organization: The Fair Vally of Imladris, in the Realm of DKnet.
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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I have today uploaded ftape-2.05 to sunsite. It is currently in
pub/Linux/Incoming, and it should make its way to pub/Linux/kernel/tapes
soon.
Below is a snip from the RELEASE-NOTES file:
===== Release notes for ftape-2.05, 08/01/96 =====
- - For v1.2.x Kernels, you must apply the patch linux-1.2/ksyms.patch to
the kernel and rebuild it (it adds the __get_dma_pages symbol to
ksyms.c).
- - Included new asm-i386/io.h file from v1.3.x kernel series, to enable
gcc v.2.7.x to compile v1.2.x kernels (linux-1.2/io.h).
- - Module versions: If you wish to compile ftape as a versioned module,
you must first compile your kernel with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y.
Otherwise, you will get complaints that <linux/modversions.h> does not
exist (if that happens, just do a `touch modversions.h' will help you
out).
- - CLK_48MHZ: new define in the Makefile (default: non-zero). If you have
a tape controller card that uses the i82078(-1) chip, but cannot get
it to work with ftape, try set it to 0 (and please report this).
- - QIC-3010/3020: Complete support is still missing, but will hopefully
come soon. Steven Sorbom has kindly provided me with hints about
this. Writing of QIC-3020 tapes definitely does NOT work (do not try
it! - the drive will not be in "perpendicular mode" and this will ruin
the formatting info on the tape).
- - ftape_num_buffers is out of fashion: use NR_BUFFERS instead (and
recompile if you want to change it :-).
As always, all feedback are welcome
Kai
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