Re: Installation Help - tape backup

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Mugleston, Brad wrote:
> 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?

Did you load the floppy-tape driver (ftape.o)?  If so, have you
tried "mt -f /dev/nqft0 rewind" (see "man mt" for details).

If you have access to the kernel source tree, look at
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ftape.txt
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