tapes

[Brent Harding]

Wow, maybe it is, using redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.16.
The box I have with redhat 7.0 in it says it'll support usb keyboards and
mice, but not sure of what else.
At 02:26 PM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote:
>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
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>----- 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
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>> 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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