tapes

[Gregory Nowak]

As far as I know, the floppy tape drives aren't being made anymore. Also, I
thought that USB was supported in kernels as early as 2.2.18.
Greg


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at ufw2.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 12:32 PM
Subject: re: tapes


> Ftape is something from the linux kernel source, it's a type of tape drive
> hooked up to the floppy disk controller. I'm not sure if they're being
made
> any more, as it seems like places that have them have a hard time getting
> rid of them. I basically got mine from a guy who switched his backup
system
> to some bigger system, sure they're not real costly if one can still find
> them. I wanted it because it's hard to get a CD burner working in linux
> that's using the USB port, as that's for kernel 2.4, which I've not yet
> played with.
> At 08:46 PM 2/18/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >what is ftape? where can you get it? how much does the drive cost?
> >
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