On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Oleguer Serra (ARGUS Serveis Telematics)
wrote:
> I have a HP Colorado 8Gb C4386B IDE. Does it works with ftape ?
>
No, not with ftape, but nevertheless it should work under linux. Ftape handles
tape drives connected to the floppy tape controller and some drives that use the
parallel port. An IDE drive is connected to the IDE controller, instead.
If you really have an IDE drive, you will have to recompile your kernel
with "ide tape support"; devices will be /dev/ht0 and /dev/nht0 (I think, not really
sure). You should be able to control the tape with the commands "tar" and "mt" and of
course with several different backup programs.
Read
- /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt (includes hints for setting up
/etc/conf.modules!)
- /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/ide-tape.c (I mean the comments at the beginning...)
Bye, Juergen.
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