From: edwardsk@cuug.ab.ca (Kenneth Edwards) Subject: Re: Colorado streamer Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 18:35:35 GMT
In article <28a93p$j8i@boson.epita.fr> olle_n@argon.epita.fr (nicolas olle) :
>subject: I have a 250 Mb streamer (Colorado) connected
>on my pc (IDE). And i would like to use it under Linux.
There seems to be quite a bit of traffic on this so I thought I'd post,
a little about how I got ftape to work for me.
MANY MANY THANKS to Bas Laarhoven and everyone who worked on this project.
I get a warm fuzzy feeling looking at my stack of tapes and knowing that
my Linux system is finally properly backed up.
This is how I got it to work on my third ( or fourth, I lost count ) try!!
Your mileage may vary.
You must READ the instructions that come with ftape very very carefully.
Read them again, UNDERSTAND them, FOLLOW them exactly.
If you understand the instructions, you may get it to work on your
first try, I did not and so got to do it again, and again etc.
My system:
Colorado Jumbo 250 running on the floppy controller that used to be fd1.
SLS 1.03 source distribution lx99pl12.
ftape-0.9.6 from kernel/tapes on sunsite.
NOTE: SLS comes with modules installed but it is NOT configured to
install ftape, so some of the patches have to be applied by
hand, and some of them mess up duplicating code.
0 Backup your linux source directory so you can do this again if you have to.
1 Unpack ftape as per instructions.
2 Unpack modules as per instructions.
3 Apply the patch as shown.
4 In SLS you must fix the patches that did not work !!!
5 Try to rebuild linux ( make zlilo ).
6 Fix the problems with unresolved externs according to the instructions.
7 Rebuild linux ( make zlilo )
8 Reboot
9 Run make in the modules/utils directory and test the hello program.
10 Put the executables ( insmod lsmod rmmod ) somewhere in you path.
11 Run make in the ftape directory, it will make and install the tape driver.
Note that I get lots of multiply defined messages etc. when I install the
driver but it seems to work fine. It will not work at the same time as
ANY floppy access but if you are on a single user system as I am then
it is fine.
I have created a bootable floppy with a minimal kernel that will run
the tape. I could put it on the net if there is interest, and the folks
that run the archive sites feel it is of significant value.
Good Luck.
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In article <28a93p$j8i@boson.epita.fr> olle_n@argon.epita.fr (nicolas olle) :
>subject: I have a 250 Mb streamer (Colorado) connected
>on my pc (IDE). And i would like to use it under Linux.
There seems to be quite a bit of traffic on this so I thought I'd post,
a little about how I got ftape to work for me.
MANY MANY THANKS to Bas Laarhoven and everyone who worked on this project.
I get a warm fuzzy feeling looking at my stack of tapes and knowing that
my Linux system is finally properly backed up.
This is how I got it to work on my third ( or fourth, I lost count ) try!!
Your mileage may vary.
You must READ the instructions that come with ftape very very carefully.
Read them again, UNDERSTAND them, FOLLOW them exactly.
If you understand the instructions, you may get it to work on your
first try, I did not and so got to do it again, and again etc.
My system:
Colorado Jumbo 250 running on the floppy controller that used to be fd1.
SLS 1.03 source distribution lx99pl12.
ftape-0.9.6 from kernel/tapes on sunsite.
NOTE: SLS comes with modules installed but it is NOT configured to
install ftape, so some of the patches have to be applied by
hand, and some of them mess up duplicating code.
0 Backup your linux source directory so you can do this again if you have to.
1 Unpack ftape as per instructions.
2 Unpack modules as per instructions.
3 Apply the patch as shown.
4 In SLS you must fix the patches that did not work !!!
5 Try to rebuild linux ( make zlilo ).
6 Fix the problems with unresolved externs according to the instructions.
7 Rebuild linux ( make zlilo )
8 Reboot
9 Run make in the modules/utils directory and test the hello program.
10 Put the executables ( insmod lsmod rmmod ) somewhere in you path.
11 Run make in the ftape directory, it will make and install the tape driver.
Note that I get lots of multiply defined messages etc. when I install the
driver but it seems to work fine. It will not work at the same time as
ANY floppy access but if you are on a single user system as I am then
it is fine.
I have created a bootable floppy with a minimal kernel that will run
the tape. I could put it on the net if there is interest, and the folks
that run the archive sites feel it is of significant value.
Good Luck.