> Correct. However, you need the accellerator card (see below)
> and mine had jumpers (and yes, I had set them to something
> different than I remembered at first).
That makes me wonder if I can plug my regular floppy into that as well and
get some better performance out of it.
> That is your problem! You need at least a 1000KBit/s
> controler to be able to use your TR3-Tape drive. You can
> actually get 2000KBit/s from a controller (but about 50% of
> the bandwith is overhead!).
What this says to me is that my hardware simply won't support more than
500KBit/s no matter what software tweaks are made. True?
> Now, you'll say "but it works with Windows". Well, yes, it
> does, but it silently halves the data density, in other words,
> you won't have 3.2/1.6 GB tapes but 1.6/0.8 GB tapes. Ftape
> doesn't do these kind of compromises, hence, it won't work.
> So, you want an accellerator card.
Gee, isn't windows great :-) I wonder if they (iOmega) acknowledge that in
some sort of FAQ.
> > How do I do that? Is is an argument to the module or is it in a config
> > file?
>
> Using either an argument to the module or ftmt. See manual.
I will look into that for testing purposes. I'll try to get it working at
reduced capacity until the card arrives.
I was able to order a Ditto Dash Tape Accelerator card from Ditto
themselves, however they said it was replaced by the "DXJ". Does anyone
know anything about this? Will it work with ftape?
Thanks for all of your help!
-Chuck
