Re: trakker 450 question

On Samstag, 9. November 2002 22:09, dashielljt wrote:
> I'm using slackware 8.0 now and was successful with modprobe ftape 
and
> ftape found a qic 117 tape drive.  This is in the class of qic 80 
and now
> hangs off of lp0.  As of now there's nothing in /proc/scsi/scsi 
since I
> don't know what to write there.  stinit also hasn't got stinit.def 
and
> there's no example stuff for qic 117 or qic 80 type drives in
> qic.def.examples and I downloaded and installed mt-st 0.7.  

This tape drive is not a scsi device, so you should use the 
ftape-tools
instead.  You can access the drive as /dev/qft0 or /dev/ftape/0/qft.

Claus-Justus Heine has the ftape manual online on his web page:

http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/ftape-manual/html/Top.html

  Jochen

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