Re: [newbie] Floppy Tape Drive Device Name
In case you didn't get a reply already to this. from the console enter "modprobe zftape" (minus the quotes) then fire up taper. Regards Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again!, I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying desperately to configure for Linux. I have found much info on ftape, and even an old program that I used to use for backing up SCO (Microlite Backup Edge) that has been ported to Linux. I cannot, however, get over the first hurdle which is how in the heck to get Linux to "see" the tape drive. I currently have the tape drive "sharing" the floppy cable with my "a:" drive(fd0), so I would ASSume the tape drive would be fd1? No luck there. Tried every possible twist, turn, flip and flop of cables and drives. Still does not show up in dmesg. How do I find this device name? I recall something about floppy tape drives possibly not working when "sharing" a floppy cable with another drive. If this is the case, do I need a floppy controller card? If the floppy controller card is the way to go, should I tell my bios that now a drive "b" exists? How should this drive be mounted, (mt)? Thanks, Bryan -- Regards Dan
Re: [newbie] Floppy Tape Drive Device Name
I suggest taking a look at the ftape How-to. The URL is: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html HTH, Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Floppy Tape Drive Device Name Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:25:04 -0500 Hi again!, I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying desperately to configure for Linux. I have found much info on ftape, and even an old program that I used to use for backing up SCO (Microlite Backup Edge) that has been ported to Linux. I cannot, however, get over the first hurdle which is how in the heck to get Linux to "see" the tape drive. I currently have the tape drive "sharing" the floppy cable with my "a:" drive(fd0), so I would ASSume the tape drive would be fd1? No luck there. Tried every possible twist, turn, flip and flop of cables and drives. Still does not show up in dmesg. How do I find this device name? I recall something about floppy tape drives possibly not working when "sharing" a floppy cable with another drive. If this is the case, do I need a floppy controller card? If the floppy controller card is the way to go, should I tell my bios that now a drive "b" exists? How should this drive be mounted, (mt)? Thanks, Bryan __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy Tape Drive Device Name
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hi again!, I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying desperately to configure for Linux. I have found much info on ftape, and even an old program that I used to use for backing up SCO (Microlite Backup Edge) that has been ported to Linux. I cannot, however, get over the first hurdle which is how in the heck to get Linux to "see" the tape drive. I currently have the tape drive "sharing" the floppy cable with my "a:" drive(fd0), so I would ASSume the tape drive would be fd1? No luck there. Tried every possible twist, turn, flip and flop of cables and drives. Still does not show up in dmesg. How do I find this device name? I recall something about floppy tape drives possibly not working when "sharing" a floppy cable with another drive. If this is the case, do I need a floppy controller card? If the floppy controller card is the way to go, should I tell my bios that now a drive "b" exists? How should this drive be mounted, (mt)? I have on my RH 6.0 system a symlink from ftape to rft0. I would guess that is your tape device. John
[newbie] Floppy Tape Drive Device Name
Hi again!, I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying desperately to configure for Linux. I have found much info on ftape, and even an old program that I used to use for backing up SCO (Microlite Backup Edge) that has been ported to Linux. I cannot, however, get over the first hurdle which is how in the heck to get Linux to "see" the tape drive. I currently have the tape drive "sharing" the floppy cable with my "a:" drive(fd0), so I would ASSume the tape drive would be fd1? No luck there. Tried every possible twist, turn, flip and flop of cables and drives. Still does not show up in dmesg. How do I find this device name? I recall something about floppy tape drives possibly not working when "sharing" a floppy cable with another drive. If this is the case, do I need a floppy controller card? If the floppy controller card is the way to go, should I tell my bios that now a drive "b" exists? How should this drive be mounted, (mt)? Thanks, Bryan
