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RE: Tape support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Gibson)
Fri Nov 6 10:04:19 1998
From: "Jason Gibson" <Jason.Gibson.jasongi@nt.com>
To: redhat-digest@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:02:27 -0500
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I believe it will. I use a TR-1 floppy tape drive. Check out the docs on
ftape. I also user the ftaper backup program which I guess uses tgz.
Either way, I got greater than 2:1 compression even leaving out some of the
doc directories. Never saw this in a tape backup prog in MSWIN.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Hunziker [SMTP:MCHunziker@us.fortis.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 7:51 AM
> To: redhat-digest@redhat.com
> Subject: Tape support
>
> Does anyone know if the following tape drive might work with a
> Red Hat 5.1 install.....2.0.34 kernel I believe....
>
> Conner Tape-Stor that uses Travan qic-80 tapes......
>
> The catch here is that it runs off the floppy controller, daisy chained
> with
> a 1.44m drive.
>
> I don't want to waste my time even pulling the cover off the machine if
> it isn't going to work.
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