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Re: Suggest a Tape Drive Please!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dataforge)
Mon Nov 25 18:43:47 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:01:00 -0500 (EST)
From: "Dataforge <20516/0/mth/24/burl>" <forsyth@wchat.on.ca>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, James Jones wrote:
> I need a tape drive that works under Linux with as little pain as possible.
>
> Something at lease 1G or greater. I have fought and fought with a HP
> Colorado Tape drive for 3 weeks and still can't get it online.
>
> Any and all suggestions are welcome. I need to know somebody who actually
> can verify it works with little pain. Supposedly, the HP Colorado 1400
> works but it seems
> impossible to make it work. Whoever got it to work must be quite a hacker.
> I'm
> a novice and need something simple and reliable. I'm begging for
> suggestions from
> the linux community. Thanks in advance! :-)
What kernel/RH are you using? Are you loading ftape? Have you read
trhough the Ftape HOWTO? You must also build the devices in /dev/ The
1400 sould be no different than my Colorodo 350... I think. :-).
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