Re: Tape support under Linux 2.2.x

2001-01-10 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:29:31AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I am planning to add a tape drive to my Linux box but I am not very sure > about which are supported. I am using a HP-Colorado which is an IDE-device connected to the parport (there are also internal ones). It works great. P

Re: Tape support under Linux 2.2.x

2001-01-10 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:29:31AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am planning to add a tape drive to my Linux box but I am not very sure > about which are supported. > It seems to me compatibility is not a quite an issue and I should expect all > of them to work the sa

Re: Tape support under Linux 2.2.x

2001-01-10 Thread Gary Jones
On 10 Jan 2001, you wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 04:03:18 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >I definitely need /something/ to do backups to > >(alternative suggestions, anyone?). Anyway, I found > >http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html quite interesting, > >particularly http://www.linuxd

Re: Tape support under Linux 2.2.x

2001-01-10 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > any SCSI-tapedrive should do AFAICT. never had any problems (with scsi, > those things which reside on the floppy controller or come with their > own cards are another matter altogether). Except the ones which do not behave like a SCSI Tape (Sequential

Re: Tape support under Linux 2.2.x

2001-01-10 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 04:03:18 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I definitely need /something/ to do backups to >(alternative suggestions, anyone?). Anyway, I found >http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html quite interesting, >particularly http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO-6.html#supp_d

Re: Tape support under Linux 2.2.x

2001-01-10 Thread garyjones
At Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:29:31 +0100 , Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am planning to add a tape drive to my Linux box but I am not very sure >about which are supported. >It seems to me compatibility is not a quite an issue and I should expect all >of them to work the same way

Tape support under Linux 2.2.x

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I am planning to add a tape drive to my Linux box but I am not very sure about which are supported. It seems to me compatibility is not a quite an issue and I should expect all of them to work the same way floppy drives do, but I am not sure. Any advice? Any URL I could check? -- ___