Hi,
I've only recently started trying to use ftape, since someone gave me a
2Gb Iomega Ditto paralell port drive. The Iomega ditto drive running
under Windoze is *VERY* slow and I expect it to be the same under ftape,
possibly a little better! I don't know how it compares on the floppy
controller or whatever the ditto max's connect to?
I also have a seagate hornet travan drive, it is the SCSI one but a
friend has the IDE one and these retail for less than 200 UKP. the SCSI
is nice and fast, a few hundred k a second!
Neil
Edward Mulholland wrote:
>
> I am running Debian using the 2.0.36 kernel on my home PC, and I'm looking
> for an inexpensive tape drive. The Linux compatibility HOWTO as well as
> the ftape home-page information at
>
> http://zeus.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
>
> both state that the Iomega Ditto Max drives should work with the latest
> version of ftape. However, I noticed that Iomega has sold the right to
> manufacture Ditto Max drives to Tecmar. If I buy Tecmar's current 10GB
> internal Ditto Max Pro drive--the specifications are at
>
> http://www.tecmar.com/ditto/products/dm10gb.html
>
> --will it work with my kernel and with ftape? I would greatly appreciate
> advice from any ftape gurus or users of Ditto Max drives.
>
> Thanks!
> -Ed Mulholland
