On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:23:54AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
> Are there any tape drives that will take the tapes for a T3000
>that fit
> in a laptop? If not, is there a way to share the drive on mydesktop with
I don't know about that specifically, but tape drives can be connected
to the parallel port, if they support it.
> the laptop? Will it work, to just use the cable that's hooked to my printer
> to hook to my laptop's parport to get plip going to do this? Plip sounds
The printer cable has two different connectors on each end; you'll
need one which fits :-)
> simple to set up from the plip install howto, and the cheapest way to
> network known to man that works in linux. Serial port is out of the
Network cards are really cheap these days (I don't know about PCMCIA
though); cables are ridiculously expensive. It probably still would be
cheaper, but PLIP is really slow.
> question, as I have to use it for something else, so laplink probably won't
> work with just the parallel connection. The dvd card in my slo6t is
> basically a cover for the slot because I could never play a dvd in windows
> or linux. Do they have a T3000 that could fit in a pcmcia slot? Especially
> if it works with just loading pcmcia with default debian settings and ftape.
Robie.
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