Re: trakker 450 question

Thanks for the manual pointer.  It turns out slackware didn't include the
ftape tools so I'll have to download them.  The mt status command says the
tape device doesn't exist.  I wish when these distributors sell things
they'd at least include complete packages on their distributions!

Jude <[email protected]>

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> 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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