[6089] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Suggest a Tape Drive Please!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Muench)
Mon Nov 25 19:02:47 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:27:58 -0500 (EST)
From: David Muench <cc@spork.neonexus.com>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, James Jones wrote:
> 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! :-)
I use a Colorado Jumbo 1400 on my SMP machine. I assume you got the free
FC-20 controller for it? If so, that's probably the cause of your problem.
What you need to do is boot up dos off a boot disk and run the dos tape
config program so you can see the hardware parameters to get the card's
IRQ, I/O address, and DMA (you must set the DMA to 1, 2, or 3, 5 and 7
won't work). Once you get that information, go in your linux kernel
sources and edit drivers/char/ftape/Makefile according to the instructions
near the top. You'll uncomment the line for FC-10/20 support and set the
parameters to the information you got from the tape config program. Then
just compile a kernel with ftape enabled or as a module. With luck it will
show up as /dev/ftape.
BTW, if you don't use that controller and just hook the drive directly
onto the floppy change, you won't have to muck around with that Makefile,
but your backups will be a lot slower.
And to Linus and all, it'd be nice if we could select the controller type
and I/O parameters in make config/make menuconfig instead of editing the
makefile.
Hope this helps..
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