Bug#201345: O: ftape -- Bleeding Edge floppy tape driver (source)
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of ftape, Christian Meder
<meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>, has orphaned this package. If you want
to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package:
Package: ftape
Binary: ftape-source
Version: 4.04a.x.2002.03.21-0.2
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Maintainer: Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>
Build-Depends: cpio
Architecture: i386 alpha
Standards-Version: 3.5.6
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/f/ftape
Files: 09c0d79d67565d8d08677cc03f6c5009 606 ftape_4.04a.x.2002.03.21-0.2.dsc
1c7322d205707af79c0d7fb0ec9c45b0 397900 ftape_4.04a.x.2002.03.21.orig.tar.gz
9f273f33a6ac41525e826d7d27edf103 11506 ftape_4.04a.x.2002.03.21-0.2.diff.gz
Package: ftape-source
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 548
Maintainer: Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>
Architecture: i386
Source: ftape
Version: 4.04a.x.2002.03.21-0.2
Depends: make, debconf
Recommends: dpkg-dev
Suggests: kernel-package
Filename: pool/main/f/ftape/ftape-source_4.04a.x.2002.03.21-0.2_i386.deb
Size: 451216
MD5sum: 6ed94a46b2e9f918a46e2641b4907775
Description: Bleeding Edge floppy tape driver (source)
A substitution for the stock ftape driver in the kernel. If you
want to use a floppy tape drive with a 2.0.x kernel you should definitly
use these sources instead of the stock ftape driver in the kernel.
This driver detects and supports many more tape drives than the
2.0.x driver which is ancient.
Compared to the 2.2.x stock ftape driver the difference is
reduced to support for the Iomega Ditto Max, parallel port floppy
tapes (Colorado Trakker, Iomega, Exabyte and Seagate parallel port
drives) and multiple tape drives in one box.
.
Supported drives according to upstream README:
"Currently, the driver supports many QIC-40/QIC-80/QIC-3010/QIC-3020
tape drives that conform to the respective QIC-* development
standards, as well as the Iomega Ditto 2GB and Max drives.
.
Some parallel port tape drives are also supported, too. These are the
Colorado Trakker and several kinds of parallel port drives that use
the Micro Solutions' "Backpack" protocol, i.e. the Iomega Ditto
parallel port drives, and some parallel port floppy tape drives made
by Exabyte and Seagate."
.
Please note that the kernel sources must be installed to compile these
modules.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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