On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:59:20 -0500, Mark Weaver said:
> On Monday 15 January 2001 10:36 am, you wrote:
> > While going through some boxes of "old stuff" I came across an Iomega
> > parallel port Easy 800 tape drive and some old tapes. The tapes conform
> > to Travan (TR-1) format and QIC-80 format.
> >
> > Is there any way to use this tape drive, with Linux, long enough to get
> > some files written with Iomega Windows 3.1 software? My son used this
> > drive to store some graphics files when he was in high school and I was
> > just wondering if I could retrieve them.
> >
> > Where do I go, what do I read, what software do I need? Preferably
> > something GUI.
>
> David,
>
> Theres a cool little DOS like GUI on Mandrake called Taper. You start it from
> a command line like this:
>
> taper -T <device-name>
>
> My tape drive is SCSI so I use a command something like this;
>
> taper -T st0
>
> I'm not real sure exactly what the device name for a paralell port device
> such as yours, but I'm sure the program info might be able to tell you a
> little more about it.
Thanks Mark. I'll give it "look at" tomorrow.
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David Boles
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