Tape Drive Woes

[Rocky McGaugh]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Gene and Amy Dascher wrote:

> I have inherited a Ditto 3020 internal tape drive (attached to the
> floppy cable) from my brother's old machine and I'd like to use it to
> back up files from my Linux system.  I cannot get my system to recognize
> the drive though.  Any hints on how to accomplish this? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Gene Dascher
> 

That should prolly fall under the 'ftape' type of tape drives. I havent
messed with ftape in a long time, so i dont really remember much about it.

I do remember that there was an ftape howto, and it was not that hard to
get it working tho..:)

good luck,

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Rocky McGaugh
rmcgaugh at atipa.com