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ftape-2.06 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Jan 28 20:12:01 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 02:15:32 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Kai Harrekilde-Petersen <khp@pip.dknet.dk>
Subject: ftape-2.06 released
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I have just uploaded ftape-2.06 to www.pip.dknet.dk and will shortly
upload it to sunsite.unc.edu (if I can get in).
This release actually supports QIC-3020 (aka TR-3), but only in 1Mbps
mode. The 2Mbps code isn't fully tested, and thus I have decided to
siwtch it off by default. For the adventurous, the code is there.
For everyone's safety I will from this release also put the MD5 sum in
my announcements.
MD5 (ftape-2.06.tar.gz) = 079b9cd47c44d652662fde0bbd99c8af
MD5 (ftape-2.06.lsm) = f14583b204e4aabfe683af486bc2fb13
MD5 (ftape-2.05-2.06.diff.gz) = c08125e2619693c4218f1f5b663fccf9
Below is an excerpt from the RELEASE-NOTES:
===== Release notes for ftape-2.06, 28/01/96 =====
Special thanks go to Neal Friedman and Steven Sorbom for their
help in producing and testing this release.
I have continued to clean up the code, with an eye towards inclusion
of ftape in Linus' official kernel (In fact, as I type this, I am
running on a kernel with ftape support statically linked). I have
test-compiled ftape against my 1.2.13 tree without problems.
Hopefully, everything should be OK for the v1.2.x people.
WARNING! Alan Cox has mailed me that ftape does *NOT* work with
Linux/SMP. If you try to run ftape under Linux/SMP, it will cause a
kernel deadlock (which is worse than a panic).
- - - QIC-3020/TR-3: 1Mbps support works. Neal is capable of reading and
writing data to a tape. ftape will automatically detect the type of
tape (e.g. TR-3 vs QIC-80) and move the fdc in and out of
"perpendicular mode" as neccesarry.
- - - 2Mbps support is disabled by default, since it is not fully
debugged. If you are adventurous, remove -DFDC_82078SL in the
Makefile and see what happens :-)
- - - fdc detection: silly bugs removed (Only 2Mbps fdcs were affected)
and added detection of the National Semiconductors PC8744 fdc chip
(used in the PC873xx "super-IO" chips).
- - - Removed warning about incompatible types when compiling with Linux
1.2.x.
- - - README.PCI updated with info about the DELL Dimension XPS P90.
- - - Connor TST3200R added to detected drives.
- - - `swapout' utility added to distribution. It will dirty 5Meg of
memory, trying to swap out other programs. Just say `make swapout'
to build it. ftape will do this automatically Real Soon Now (ie:
when I have found out which kernel memory alloc function to call).
An updated version of the HOWTO will follow shortly.
Regards,
Kai
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