Re: Tape support under Linux 2.2.x
At Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:29:31 +0100 , Daniel de los Reyes <dadecal@s2-selling.com> wrote:
>I am planning to add a tape drive to my Linux box but I am not very sure
>about which are supported.
>It seems to me compatibility is not a quite an issue and I should expect all
>of them to work the same way floppy drives do, but I am not sure.
>Any advice? Any URL I could check?
This is quite strange, as only yesterday I was thinking about doing
the same thing. I definitely need /something/ to do backups to
(alternative suggestions, anyone?). Anyway, I found
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html quite interesting,
particularly http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO-6.html#supp_drives
--
Gary
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