Hello ftape project,
I am currently using a HP/Colorado T3000 with ftape 3.04d with kerenel
2.2.15. However, this drive dosen't have much life left but this one
is no longer available.
I am considering switching to a IDE based drive (approx 5 Gig) (preferably)
one fron HP which can read my 3.2 Gig tapes in HP compressed (DOS) format.
However, I have used up all 4 available IDE slots. I understand that HP
has a parallel port version of this drive.
My questions are:
1) Does Linux support the 5 Gig parallel port drive from HP.
2) If so, how would I find which /dev entry it is.
3) Does ftmt (or mt) support "file marks" ("fsf", for example)
with such a drive. I must "tar" with multiple volumes.
4) Can tapes be formated with "ftformat" or some other Linux
utility.
5) If this drive is not supported, is there a around 5 Gig
parallel port drive that can at least read Linux "tar"
generated 3.2 Gig (Travan 3) tapes. What would be its /dev
entry. And how would I use "mt/ftmt" to skip to a "file mark".
Floyd Smith,
