Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Take the case apart - there's an internal tape drive, power > supply, and floppy controller in the case. Remove the internal drive > and install it in your system ... viola! A usable tape drive.
I knew that the Trakker had a Jumbo inside, but I didn't know this was possible! I'll have to try it someday. > This isn't what you wanted? Well, that's life in the world of MS > specific hardware. No, you can't blame this one on MS. > Actually, the reason you can't use the external is because of that > floppy interface in the case ... the parallel port serves as a link to > that interface. I don't know if it uses a proprietary protocol or if > it's just a bear to implement, but no-one's done it under Linux that I > know of. There's an ASIC in the case that has a proprietary interface. A few years ago I finally tracked down somebody at HP that knew what the situation was. They had me sign a non-disclosure agreement and sent me the doc showing how to program the interface. I had planned to try to cannibalize the ftape driver to make it work but never got around to it. I couldn't give it to anybody if I had, though. Now, with my 6.5GB of disk to back up, the 125MB (uncompressed) tape capacity is pretty useless anyway. :-( Still, I might try installing it internally as you suggested. -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
