Installation Help - tape backup

["Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com>]

I was given a "NEW" old Colorado Memory Systems JUMBO 350 tape backup that
attaches to the floppy controller.  I plugged it in last night and now what?
If I put a tape in it does the tension thing it's suppose to do but using
what instructions I can find using tar it acts as if the drive doesn't have
a tape in it or the drive isn't there (I've gotten both types of responses).


So, what does one have to do to get the system (RedHat 7.2) to recognize
this drive?

Thanks

Brad