Hi Simen
> Hi! I just boght an Ditto Max insider, and was quite surprised to se a
> controller card with it, as I didn't find mention of it in either the howto
> (v 3.0) or Iomegas own website.
>
> My system is an ancient 486 running a 66MHz dx2 cpu, and is thusly not
> supporting pnp.
That's no problem. Install the package isapnp and you will
have all tools to support PnP cards on your machine. Some
month's ago I successfully installed a PnP ISDN-card on a
similar machine.
>
> Has anybody gotten the dash dx to work, or - even better - can the drive
> itself work with my normal fdc?
Yes, have a look in the archive of the linux-tape mailing
list.
It's unlikely that this will work, because ditto max needs at
least (AFAIK) 2 MBit/s as data feed speed. And your on board
controller will only be able to give 500 KBit/s. Finally this
ditto dash is able of up to 4MBit/s, so speed of backup will
be rather impressive with this board. I have read on this
list that 3 MBit/s are likely to work reliable.
My ditto 2G with ditto dash reaches approx. 16 MByte/min with
compression based on 2 MBit/s. So you can expect more than 20
MByte/min. Maybe that this is hard work for your 486 but it
could work. My machine is based on a P75.
>
> Hope you can help me here.
>
Good luck!
Martin
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