Miguel,
I'm not too sure about that.. If I load;
parport
paride
epat
pt
Then I can access the drive (on the parallel port), but it doesn't respond
to many commands via the 'mt -f /dev/pt0 xxxx' - most commands result in
just 'invalid argument'.
I suspect that the 'epat' driver is a QIC-113 driver (TR1,2 & 3) instead of
QIC-157 (TR4,5 & 7).
As I've understood, the ftape/zftape package is for external floppy protocol
tape drives (Floppy protocol is the same as QIC-113) and then it's of no use
since my drive uses the QIC-157 protocol.
Anders Norrbring
Norrbring Consulting
> Hi
>
> insmod paride
> insmod epat
> [If internal tape]insmod pt
> [If external tape]insmod ftape
>
> Then you use "tar" to write into device.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Miguel
> Computers Engineer
> http://miguelmoura.homelinux.com
> Portugal
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux-parport@gear.torque.net
> [mailto:owner-linux-parport@gear.torque.net] On Behalf Of Anders
> Norrbring
> Sent: quinta-feira, 17 de Julho de 2003 12:28
> To: Linux parport; SuSE Help mail list
> Subject: [PARPORT] Please help me with parport and ftape modules...
>
>
>
> Hello there!
>
> I'm sitting here sweating trying to find out how I can manage to kick
> life into my tape drive. I don't really know what modules to use,
> parport and paride are obvious, but what else? The drive I have is a HP
> Colorado 20GB (Travan TR-5) connected to the parallel port on the
> computer. All info I've found so far only covers TR1-2-3 which are
> using QIC-113 floppy interface protocol.
>
> The TR4-5-7 drives uses QIC-157 interface standards and I can't for my
> life find any relevant information on how to use it, what modules to
> load etc. So I really hope somebody here knows how I can solve it.
>
> Later,
>
> Anders Norrbring
> Norrbring Consulting
>
>
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