Source: ftape
Section: utils
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>
Build-Depends: cpio
Standards-Version: 3.1.1.1

Package: ftape-source
Architecture: i386 alpha
Depends: make
Recommends: dpkg-dev
Suggests: kernel-package
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.

