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I was hoping this would be on the Hardware FAQ, or some other FAQ but
I havent found it. My apologies if this is a FAQ.

Is there Linux support (via tar) for floppy controller based QIC 40/80
tape drives, like the Colorado or the Conner? If not, what information
would I need to write a driver to support it? What device would one
write to? /dev/fd2?

I can't afford a SCSI tape, and would hate to lose all the work that
went into configuring, tuning, and setting up Linux, uucp and news.

FWIW: I'm using a 486DLC/40 w/ IDE Multi-IO controller, 1 1.44 Floppy,
8Mb RAM and pl14.

Thanks in advance for your advice and ideas.

Ron Chibnik

 90388    8 -rw-rw-r--   1 johnsonm ftp-linu     7605 Jan 20 22:01
./ALPHA/QIC-80/ftape-0.9.9d.install-guide
 90472    1 -rw-rw-r--   1 johnsonm ftp-linu      859 Jan 20 22:01
./ALPHA/QIC-80/ftape-0.9.9d.lsm
 90474   55 -rw-rw-r--   1 johnsonm ftp-linu    55937 Jan 20 22:01
./ALPHA/QIC-80/ftape-0.9.9d.tar.gz

You also need modutils-0.99.14, found at the same site:

 53261   13 -rw-r--r--   1 tytso    ftp-linu    12484 Dec 14 13:45
./ALPHA/QIC-80/modutils-0.99.14.tar.gz

There is also a HOWTO:

 41041   18 -r--r--r--   1 daemon   ftp-linu    17825 Jan 25 13:25
./docs/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO

This should keep you busy for the coming few hours...

Good luck,

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Quote:>I was hoping this would be on the Hardware FAQ, or some other FAQ but
>I havent found it. My apologies if this is a FAQ.

Quote:>Is there Linux support (via tar) for floppy controller based QIC 40/80
>tape drives, like the Colorado or the Conner? If not, what information
>would I need to write a driver to support it? What device would one
>write to? /dev/fd2?

Mario.

                in pub/linux/ALPHA/QIC-80

        the folowing files :

                ftape-0.9.9d.install-guide
                ftape-0.9.9d.lsm
                ftape-0.9.9d.tar.gz

        Thats all

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