Tape Drive Woes

[Randy Rathbun]

You probably are going to also need zftape.o as well

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Rocky McGaugh wrote:

> 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,
> 
> --
> Rocky McGaugh
> rmcgaugh at atipa.com
> 

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