On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Michelle Schneider wrote:
> > > > I have not been able to get my tape drive to work. I have read the How-To and
> > > > the FAQ. No matter what I try, I get a message "device not found." I have a
> > > > Conner tape drive that uses TR-1 cartridges. It works in dos but not in linux.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > Is this SCSI or Floppy-based?
> > > John
> >
> > Sorry, I forgot that in my original message. It is Floppy-based.
> >
> No sweat. Typically, you use the "ftape" command to access
> a floppy-based tape drive. The device is either /dev/ftape
> or /dev/rft0 (or /dev/nftape or /dev/nrft0.) Also, does
> your floppy drive work when you've got the tape drive
> installed? Just wondering if you have the correct adapter
I was having similar problems. I needed to do the following:
insmod ftape
insmod zftape
insmod ftape-internal
in that order before anything would work
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
