>I installed my parport Ditto Easy3200 Tape drive on dual-bootable laptop
>under windows to see if could get an idea of what system resources the
>drive was using. The tape worked but this angle turned out to not
>produce any information in the area of system resources. So at a
>minimum at least I know the parallel port is set correctly and that the
>tape drive worked with this PC.
Hmmm, wish I could help you, but my tape drive is internal and hooked-up to
the floppy port. One thing though, you mentioned used the tape drive from
Linux, but have you tried to print from Linux? There are several kernel
options that need configured correctly before something like this device
will work. What kernel are you using?
>ftmt: /dev/qft0: Device not configured
That usually means something is screwed-up. I seen that plenty of times
before I got the kinks out of my ftape setup.
>try or comments on their experience using ftape and Iomega Ditto
>drives? Does anybody even read this mailing list? I haven't seen a
>single response to any of my postings.
Who knows, maybe you are the only one reading the list with that setup. If
I were you, I would get on a site like www.searchlinux.com and see if anyone
else has gotten this working. Another good idea would be to search under
parallel port ZIP drives; they may have similar setups.
Keep pluggin', it took me almost a month to get my sound card/tape drive to
work together without crashing my Linux box. Now, things are working great
and my Linux knowledge went up 200% in the process. :)
--
Douglas Bollinger
Mt. Holly Springs, PA 17065
My other computer runs Linux.
