RE: Installation Help - tape backup

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

Thank you very much - How do I tell if the floppy-tape driver (ftape.o) is
loaded?

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens vitalstream com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:17 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Installation Help - tape backup


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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