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5.1.2: The kernel sources for Linux v1.2.13 or later.

Actually ftape-4.03 hasn't been tested yet with Linux v1.2.13, but only with v2.1.x and v2.1.0. If you know what you're doing then you can use the driver with older kernel versions, but you have to hack the ftape and modules support in the kernel yourself!

You need to run a kernel without support for ftape compiled into the kernel image. Please check the file `/proc/devices' for a line like `27 ft'. If `/proc/devices' contains such a line(1), then you need to reconfigure your kernel without support for ftape enabled, i.e. answer no to the

Ftape (QIC-80/Travan) support 

question. Recompile and install the new kernel in the usual way.

Note that there were quite a bit of problem reports on compiling ftape with kernels of the 1.2.* series. However, some of these should vanish when compiling the drivers without the CONFIG_MODVERSIONS option. Other problems may vanish when reading through the special parts of this manual that are dedicated to those kernels (see v1.2.13). I arrived at compiling ftape with the following kernels:


(1) Of course, the ftape device in `/proc/devices' will also show up if any version of the ftape module is loaded.


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