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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT new tape driver
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Keywords: lftape 0.01, floppy tape device driver, new patch
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From: Florian La Roche
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Date: 93/06/13
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ANNOUNCEMENT of a new version of the pre-alpha floppy tape driver.
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(for cheap QIC-80 streamer)
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I just uploaded lftape-0.01.tar.z to sunsite.unc.edu
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This should be moved to linux/ALPHA/QIC-80.
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IMPORTANT: This version can NOT do anything more than the already
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uploaded version. Especially it can NOT read or write anything
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to/from tape. This is still pre-alpha software!!!
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You need libc 4.4 and 0.99pl10.
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(Also, I use GNU cc 2.4.3. But 2.3.3 should be ok.)
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You should NOT try with any other kernel version!!!
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I uploaded this, because I think this new version is a better
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starting point to make it really work and I would be glad, if
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some people, who know enough to reboot with a patched 0.99pl10,
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could run some tests on the already working source parts and
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tell me, if everything is like I expect it.
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(See more about that in the source package.)
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Remember: I don't take responsibility for anything!
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Installing the source patches is now much easier and the source
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code is hopefully much more readable/understandable.
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If you know about DMA or the floppy disk controller (kernel/blk_drv/floppy.c)
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you could have a look at the first part of the "ftape.c" source code.
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Short summary what I did:
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I started from ftape-1.02 (David Brown) and the available patches
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for Linux from Karl Heinz Kremer. I moved a lot of the source
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code around and changed the original mach specific parts to
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"linux only". (The original sources used a lot of extra threads.)
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I use more macros from other kernel parts.
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I added better error checking code for the low level interface to
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the floppy disk controller.
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I included in this version the "modules" package. (You can add new
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versions of the tape driver without rebooting.)
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If you want to help with this port, please contact me.
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If you need more help or if you need anything else,
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feel free to contact me.
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Especially I want to know where new versions of the original
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source package (ftape-1.02.tar.Z) can be found. Tell me!
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Thanks for everything to all of you...
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Florian La Roche
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flla@stud.uni-sb.de or maybe flla@coli.uni-sb.de
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