Yves Colombani wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have to buy a tape drive to be used with a Linux machine without SCSI
> interface.
> Reading through the news I have not been able to identify any working
> drive!
>
> So, is there anybody successfully using a non scsi tape drive (obviously
> I am looking for something still on the market!) ?
>
> Is ATAPI really a standard? (for instance, Seagate offers some drives
> of this type: can they be used?)
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Yves.
I believe the ftape suite can be used only by tape drives on a floppy-disk
controller. I believe ATAPI is a standard, but not the one for ftape. It
might be that those work with ordinary drivers, as do SCSI tapes (not the
same drivers, though). Probably someone more expert than I can enlighten
you.
I use a Conner (Seagate) "1700MB Internal Minicartridge Drive" hooked up
with a Conner (Seagate) "CTC-2Mb 2Mb Floppy Controller." I use it with
Linux Kernel 2.2.5-22 (part of Red Hat Linux 6.0). I run one of the
"unstable" versions of ftape, since the official one (4.2, I believe) does
not work with the 2.2.* versions. It works well.
I am not positive Conner-Seagate make this unit anymore (It was current in
August 1966 when I bought it), but they may make
something like it.
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