It doesn't appear that the latest version of ftape was included with 6.1. The included version is 3.04d, and I thought would be 4.02. Also, the Makefile included /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/ftape is for "personal development only" of Claus Heine, and doesn't accept the "uninstall" parameter. This makes ftape hard to remove, or upgrade. Also, why isn't ftape in the Component drop down box of bugzilla? I would appreciate any insight in upgrading my ftape to a different version. I have tried downloading 4.02 and 4.03prerelease2, reading the documentation, and compiling the code. However, I continue to get errors with "structure has no member named 'timeout'" in several components (fdc- io.c ftape.c ftape-buffer.c ftape-ro.c) While I use ftape to access many different devices, today's goal was to read a tape using my Ditto Max parallel port device. I was unsuccessful, though documentation lead me to believe it can be done with 4.02 or 4.03prerelease2. Thank you for your time.
I was able to find a web site that touts a fix: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/ftape/ I am trying it now...
Assigned to dledford
Right now the status for ftape4 is a bit of a mystery. Nobody has submitted it for the 2.2 kernel and I cant find a clear maintainer answer for it either