Re: trakker 450 install problem follow up

The drive itself says trakker 450 on it and hooks to the parallel tape
drive and uses qic 80 tapes.  This t1000e identification is a puzzle to me
too.  I've downloaded link 98 and 127 so have the latest version and docs
and will try building all of this on slackware 8.0 a little later today.
Thanks.

Jude <[email protected]>

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> On Montag, 11. November 2002 18:44, dashielljt wrote:
> > /proc/parport/0/autoprobe contains:
> >
> > CLASS:TapeDrive;
> > MODEL:T1000e;
> > MANUFACTURER:Hewlett-Packard Corp.;
> > DESCRIPTION:HP Colorado T1000e;
> > COMMAND SET:QIC-117;
>
> I'm not sure if this autoprobe works reliable.  I thought Trakker-450
> and T1000e were completely different devices.
>
> The T1000e is not supported, while Trakker-250 (and I thought 450,
> too) is supported by ftape-4.x.
>
> > file /dev/qft0 returns
> > character special file 27/0.
> > This is after a make of ftape-tools-1.09.
> > ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status returns device not found which is reasonable
> > since file shows that as character special file 27/0.
> > Anything else need doing at this point?
>
> If you have a T1000e there's AFAIK no way to get it running (except
> writing a driver). If you have a Trakker, you may check the ftape
> version that comes with the Slackware kernel.  You can look in
> /var/log/messages and search for ftape.  If it is 3.x you need to
> upgrade.  Get one of the "unstable" driver from
>
> http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/development.html
>
> The stable drivers are for Linux-2.2 so they don't work.
>
>   Jochen
>
> --
> Jochen Hoenicke, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
> Email: [email protected]  Tel: +49 441 798 3124
>
>

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