The Ftape Installation and Usage Guide - Loading ftape
This section describes how the modules depend on each other, and which modules are needed for which hardware.
ftape.o
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The general floppy tape driver library.
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zftape.o
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The VFS(1) interface which actually provides the ftape devices. This module is required in order to access the tape from user space.
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zft-compressor.o
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The decompresser for obsolete compressed volumes produced by
ftape-3.04d and earlier versions. You don't need to load this module explicitly if you are using the kernel's module auto-loading facilities. zftape will load it as needed. |
ftape-internal.o
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The FDC driver module that talks to internal FDCs. This is required when you have an internal tape drive.
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trakker.o
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The FDC driver module that talks to the Colorado Trakker parallel port tape drive. required when you have such a beast.
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bpck-fdc.o
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The FDC driver module that talks to parallel port floppy tape drives
with the Micro Solutions `
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Generally speaking, you always need to load ftape.o
,
zftape.o
and one or more of the FDC driver modules
ftape-internal.o
, trakker.o
or bpck-fdc.o
.
zft-compressor.o
is needed when you want to be able to read
compressed volumes produced by ftape-3.04d and earlier versions of the
driver. If you are a first-time user of ftape then you don't need
it.
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