Re: [PARPORT] paride pt driver


Grant R. Guenther (grant@torque.net)
Tue, 26 May 1998 06:43:02 -0400 (EDT)


> I'm new to the list. Does anyone know if there is a paride high-level tape
> drive driver for 2.0.xx kernel? I need to hookup a HP 5G tape drive to my
> 2.0.28 box. Thanks.

You should be able to patch the driver from 2.1.103 to compile on 2.0.

The main thing to watch out for are changes in the function prototypes
in the interface between the driver and the kernel - especially
in the way the inode is accessed in read() and write().

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