Re: Parallel Tape drives

James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Sun, 25 Jan 1998 13:08:04 -0500 (EST)

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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> > Does linux support parallel tape drives (like the iomega ditto 800 drive)?
>
> AFAIK no, only floppy, SCSI, IDE and QIC-02 drives.
>
> According to v1.7.1 (an old one) of the Ftape-HOWTO:
>
> Generally, ALL drives that connect to the parallel port are NOT
> supported. This is because these drives [use] (different) proprietary
> interfaces, that are very much different from the QIC-117 standard.

Those that use a parrel IDE protocol should be supported from 2.1.67 (or
so) on... Whether any acatually do so, I have no clue.

-=- James Mastros

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