I suggest taking a look at the ftape How-to. The URL is:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html
HTH,
Matt
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>Subject: [newbie] Floppy Tape Drive Device Name
>Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:25:04 -0500
>
>
>
>Hi again!,
>
>I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying
>desperately to
>configure for Linux. I have found much info on ftape, and even an old
>program that I used to use for backing up SCO (Microlite Backup Edge) that
>has
>been ported to Linux. I cannot, however, get over the first hurdle which
>is how in the heck to get Linux to "see" the tape drive. I currently have
>the
>tape drive "sharing" the floppy cable with my "a:" drive(fd0), so I would
>ASSume
>the tape drive would be fd1? No luck there. Tried every possible twist,
>turn,
>flip and flop of cables and drives. Still does not show up in dmesg. How do
>I
>find this device name? I recall something about floppy tape drives possibly
>not
>working when "sharing" a floppy cable with another drive. If this is the
>case,
>do I need a floppy controller card? If the floppy controller card is the
>way to
>go, should I tell my bios that now a drive "b" exists? How should this
>drive be
>mounted, (mt)?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Bryan
>
>
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