[KLUG Members] Tape Drive Setting up
Russell Dillenburg
members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:37:34 -0700 (PDT)
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Thanks. I guess I'll use it as a paper weight. I actually saw someone on ebay selling one similar to 250mb you mentioned. Think I'll look into other tape drives.
Adam Williams wrote:>I never actually set up a tape drive in linux before, so I'm hoping
>someone could give me some instruction. I have an old colorado jumbo
>120mb floppy tape drive. The data cable is connected to the tape
>drive, and the other end is connected to motherboard's floppy
>interface. The floppy drive data cable is connected to the data cable
>leading to tape drive. Tested floppy drive to see it still works...it
>does. Everything all good so far? I am running redhat 7.2, kernal
>version 2.4.7-10. I simply did a full installation of redhat.
I don't believe that FDC drives are supported in recent kernels. I had
a 250Mb and support seemed to fade out in the late 2.2.x kernels. They
weren't very reliable (or fast) anyway, under any OS.
A 2Gb 4mm DAT drive can be found at the local sales and e-bay for ~$20
(or less). I'd really recommend just picking up one of those.
FDC devices are sensitive to speed. There was some comments
back-in-the-day that supporting an FDC drive on a 800MHz machine just
wasn't practicle. Hence the migration IDE tape drives in the consumer
market.
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<P>Thanks. I guess I'll use it as a paper weight. I actually saw someone on ebay selling one similar to 250mb you mentioned. Think I'll look into other tape drives.
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">>I never actually set up a tape drive in linux before, so I'm hoping <BR>>someone could give me some instruction. I have an old colorado jumbo<BR>>120mb floppy tape drive. The data cable is connected to the tape<BR>>drive, and the other end is connected to motherboard's floppy<BR>>interface. The floppy drive data cable is connected to the data cable<BR>>leading to tape drive. Tested floppy drive to see it still works...it<BR>>does. Everything all good so far? I am running redhat 7.2, kernal<BR>>version 2.4.7-10. I simply did a full installation of redhat.<BR><BR>I don't believe that FDC drives are supported in recent kernels. I had<BR>a 250Mb and support seemed to fade out in the late 2.2.x kernels. They<BR>weren't very reliable (or fast) anyway, under any OS.<BR><BR>A 2Gb 4mm DAT drive can be found at the local sales and e-bay for ~$20<BR>(or less). I'd really recommend just picking up one of those.<BR><BR>FDC devices are sensitive to speed. There was some comments<BR>back-in-the-day that supporting an FDC drive on a 800MHz machine just<BR>wasn't practicle. Hence the migration IDE tape drives in the consumer<BR>market.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Members mailing list<BR>Members@kalamazoolinux.org<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><TABLE width="67%" border=0>
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