Oh yes.. I've read them all.. :)
The Colorado 5GB is a Travan TR3 drive, and as that it uses the old (and now
obsolete) floppy protocol (QIC-113).
My drive uses a completely different command/protocol (QIC-157) and can not
be used with the exact same config that you use.
Anders Norrbring
Norrbring Consulting
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Miguel Moura [mailto:Miguel.Moura@qavb.com]
> Skickat: den 17 juli 2003 15:42
> Till: 'Anders Norrbring'
> Ämne: RE: [PARPORT] Please help me with parport and ftape modules...
>
> So i see ...
> I have two tapes on that company HP Colorado but 5GB :-(.
> They work fine ... with this modules.
> Did you try to read the document "Parallel Port and Linux .... " ?
> It was the document I have read ...
>
> Miguel
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anders Norrbring [mailto:anders@norrbring.biz]
> Sent: quinta-feira, 17 de Julho de 2003 14:37
> To: Miguel.Moura@qavb.com
> Subject: SV: [PARPORT] Please help me with parport and ftape modules...
>
>
> Well Miguel,
> It's an external drive, connected to the parallel port on the
> computer... If I load paride, epat and pt, I can access the drive, but
> it doesn't work will all commands that's needed to run out backup
> softwares (BRU Backup and Arkeia).
>
> So, the driver MUST support the QIC-157 command set, and NOT the QIC-113
> which is the old protocol for tape drives that used parallel->floppy
> protocol.
>
> The drive I have isn't at all floppy command set compatible, it's an
> ATAPI command set drive.
>
> Anders Norrbring
> Norrbring Consulting
>
>
>
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: Miguel Moura [mailto:Miguel.Moura@qavb.com]
> > Skickat: den 17 juli 2003 15:27
> > Till: 'Anders Norrbring'
> > Ämne: RE: [PARPORT] Please help me with parport and ftape modules...
> >
> > Anders,
> >
> > It's an internal or external drive ?
> > I am a consultant on a company that has one ...
> >
> > So it's a parallel tape drive ...
> >
> > Just load
> >
> > parport
> > paride or epat [i am not sure]
> > ftape
> >
> >
> > pt.o it's for internal tape drives
> >
> > then you use "tar" for example.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anders Norrbring [mailto:anders@norrbring.biz]
> > Sent: quinta-feira, 17 de Julho de 2003 14:19
> > To: Miguel.Moura@qavb.com; Linux parport
> > Subject: SV: [PARPORT] Please help me with parport and ftape
> > modules...
> >
> >
> > 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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