>First of all, I'll list some of my specs:
<snip>
Hmmm, you mentioned lotsa stuff except what version of ftape you are using.
> What I've got set up now allows me to use the floppy drive
>semi-normally (it comes up as read-only when the read-only switch on the
>disk is not set...strange...) and to use the tape drive. Now, I haven't
>explored the use extensively. All I know is that I can mount the floppy
>as read-only and give `tar cf /dev/nqft0 etc' and hear the tape drive
>spin. I haven't yet tried to copy stuff to the floppy or to recover
>files from a tape.
>
> What I had to do was to give up on the accelerator card and put both
>the tape and floppy on the standard FDC(yes, this runs at
>500Kbps...slow:)). The floppy being `/dev/fd1' and the tape being
>`/dev/nqft0'. So, if you'd like to do this, make sure you've got a FDC
>cable that has connectors for two drives, make sure you set your BIOS to
>not see drive `A' and rather see drive `B' as what was once your drive
>`A', and make sure you have the tape on the connector at the end of the
>cable and your floppy on the connector between that one and the one you
>plug in to your motherboard or I/O card.
I'm using a used-to-be-P133-but-now-Winchip 221,
2 hard drives, NIC, CD burner, ISA sound card, 3dfx Voodoo and a ET6000
video card
also a Iomega 3200 Easy hooked to the floppy port with the disk drive.
While you probably don't want to here this, I just hooked the tape drive up
to a floppy cable, and the tape drive and floppy drive work great. While
you can't use them both at the same time, I didn't have to do anything funky
in the BIOS to get it working. The only downside is the glacially slow
performance through the FDC, but that's a "feature" not a problem. I valued
a free IRQ to be worth more than 2x the speed of the tape drive.
> Hope this helps. If you'd like, I can send you what more I find out
>as I continue to experiment with this setup.
>
> Andy Haninger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you using the version of ftape provided with the kernel?
Douglas Bollinger
Mt. Holly Springs, PA 17065
My other computer runs Linux.
