On 6/20/23 13:59, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 1:53 PM Warner Losh via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> OK. I have just read in a bunch of Rainbow disks. Most of them read fine on
>> the first, second or third try. Some have a sector or three amiss (I've
On 6/20/23 11:08, Plamen Mihaylov via cctalk wrote:
> I have 2.2 kernel installed on that particular machine. What
> drivers/modules should I use?
>
You're looking for ftape for your particular distro.
https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html
also:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/!
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 1:53 PM Warner Losh via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> OK. I have just read in a bunch of Rainbow disks. Most of them read fine on
> the first, second or third try. Some have a sector or three amiss (I've not
> yet checked to see if those sectors are mapped to the
OK. I have just read in a bunch of Rainbow disks. Most of them read fine on
the first, second or third try. Some have a sector or three amiss (I've not
yet checked to see if those sectors are mapped to the filesystem or not).
Some appear to be 'unformatted' though sometimes they read with errors.
T
I have 2.2 kernel installed on that particular machine. What
drivers/modules should I use?
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 8:41 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 6/20/23 10:08, Plamen Mihaylov via cctalk wrote:
> > I have the same ftape drive and looking for a suitable soluti
On 6/20/23 10:08, Plamen Mihaylov via cctalk wrote:
> I have the same ftape drive and looking for a suitable solution to use
> tapeutils/dd on it.
>
Have you tried installing the ftape driver on a pre-2.6 kernel Linux?
Old versions of NetBSD had a similar driver installation (used it, but
don't r
I have the same ftape drive and looking for a suitable solution to use
tapeutils/dd on it.
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 12:42 AM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I have an Irsin 225 drive and associated software. I can post the
> latter if you'd like.
>
> --Chuck
>
