Problem with nftl-driver

[Felix Frey]

Today, I tried to test the new nftl-code. Therefor I took the code from CVS 
and patched a 2.4.20 kernel. At the same time the grub-firmware was built and 
loaded using DFORMAT (V5.1.4) on a DOC-Millenium.
Everything went fine so far, the DOC was bootable and correctly recognised.
However, the nftla-device was not accessible, neither by fdisk nor by mount. 
I even couldn't mount the DOS-partition created by dformat.
fdisk mentioned: "Unable to open /dev/nftla".
A similar test with the alternative driver for DOC-Millenium ended up equally.

Any suggestions?

Felix