What exactly were the symptoms you have been having? I am trying to get a Ditto 2GB to work right now, but I don't know if the problems I am having are due to the tape drive or to the backup software I am using (taper 6.9). I keep getting seg faults in taper's children. Johann Spies was kind enough to write: >On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Is there a driver & until programs to run Ditto 2GB Drives on a LINUX box? > >Yes. Ftape has the ability to control the Ditto 2GB, but beware. I am >convinced that a Ditto 2Gb is not really suitable for reliable backups on >Linux. I have lost three cassettes damaged by some code and at the moment >I do not have a reliable backup available. > >Johann > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >| Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | >| [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3201 Pietermaritzburg | >| Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses > surrounding us, let us also lay aside every weight, > and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us > run with endurance the race that is set before us." > Hebrews 12:1 > > -- Theo. Sean Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]