Ben Brillat wrote:
>
> Do you mean that the Ditto Max WON'T work with linux unless I have a P200,
> or it will work SLOWLY...??
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Brillat
>
> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Tim Jones wrote:
>
> > Bruce McCoy wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm a newbie. Has anyone been able to configure an Iomega Parallel Port -2
> > > tape drive with RH5.2 k/2.0.36 . My linux box is a 486i with 83mhz
> > > overdrive
> > > and 40meg memory. If so, which version of ftape has been proven to work?
> > > Thanks
> > > Bruce McCoy
> >
> > Bruce - see my last comment to Ernst. No joy with Max on less than a
> > P5-166MHz. In fact, the Max box even states - "Pentiuim 150 required
> > for maximum performance." This goes DOUBLE for Linux.
> >
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> > Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
It will sometimes work slowly (<120K per sec), but mostly you will
receive ECC and CRC errors caused by too slow data input to the drive.
I would not trust data written to the tapes under those conditions -
even with BRU (there's only SO much we can fix)!
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