Re: [newbie] Tape Streamer

2000-06-04 Thread Paul
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Alan Dunford wrote: insmod ftape insmod zftape You can add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (you need to do that as root). At the next boot things should be A-Ok. Magic - that worked fine and thank you for that. Just for the record (someone else asked me the question) the

Re: [newbie] Tape Streamer

2000-06-03 Thread Paul
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Alan Dunford wrote: Am having a problem configuring the software for my Iomega internal tape streamer. The device is connected correctly and I can force it to write and read tapes. However, before it will work (in fact before it will recognise that there is a tape in

Re: [newbie] Tape Streamer

2000-06-03 Thread GAPrichard
Are you using the DittoMax internal (second (ISA)) floppy controller, or are you using the floppy controller that your computer uses to run your floppy drive(s)? Now that Techmar has bought the Ditto drives from Iomega, does anybody know a good (read: reasonably priced) source for tapes?

[newbie] Tape Streamer

2000-06-01 Thread Alan Dunford
Hi, Am having a problem configuring the software for my Iomega internal tape streamer. The device is connected correctly and I can force it to write and read tapes. However, before it will work (in fact before it will recognise that there is a tape in the drive itself), I need manually to

[newbie] Tape Streamer

2000-04-20 Thread Alan Dunford
Hello all. Recently installed Linux using Mandrake 7 and most things work well. This is by far the easiest Linux installer I have used. The only major problem currently (hopefully) is the configuration of my Iomega internal tape streamer. This uses the floppy drive ribbon and presumably