Dennis Herbst wrote:
>
> Hi all, I just have a question on tape backups.
> I have an old Summit SE120 (QIC80) tape drive which I considered trying
> to put to use. It is the type which connects to the floppy cable.
> The documentation does not give any info on io ports etc. It won't work
> under Win95, only DOS 5./Win3.1.
>
> After compiling the new kernel(2.2.6) I see that I could have tried to
> set up the tape drive but am unsure what to use for settings.
>
> Is this perhaps just not worth it?
>
Worth it depends on whether you want it, can fit it in your
box etc. I believe these tape drives including the Colorado variety
are generically refered to as ftape. I installed one and it
works pretty straight forwardly.
Jonathan Jefferies