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 compressed volumes is considered
obsolete. It is kept in the distribution for compatibility
reason so that people can decompress their old backups. Compressed
volumes were 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 only 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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