Simen Thoresen wrote:
>
> 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.
Do you have a real ATAPI capable IDE controller in this system? If so,
take the Ditto Max back and swap it for a Seagate TR-4 ATAPI/IDE tape
drive. The price should be around the same (US$250). Plus, you get a
drive that provides 4GB of real stroage capacity (8GB compressed) and
will work 100% under Linux.
> Has anybody gotten the dash dx to work, or - even better - can the drive
> itself work with my normal fdc?
As for your 486 and the DASH DX card, it is a PnP card and it won't work
properly without PnP support in the BIOS. And, this drive MUST be
connected to a 2000Kps controller as a minimum for proper operation.
Therefore, it will not work with a normal FDC.
Good luck,
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