From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) Subject: Summary of: What tape drives work with Linux Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 20:53:24 +0000
In article <1992Sep24.115422.1383@donau.et.tudelft.nl> wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl writes:
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>riipinen@dxcern.cern.ch (Petri Juhani Riipinen) writes:
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>>Summary of answers to question: What Tape Drives work with Linux?
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>> - Newer tapedrives are all SCSI. Altough there is SCSI support in Linux,
>> it is not certain, that SCSI tapedrives are properly supported.
>> Find out more about this (from Linus?), if you plan to go for SCSI.
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>The scsi tape driver reads:
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> panic ("No scsi tape driver installed yet....");
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>In other words.... It doesn't work yet....
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> Roger
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I think it's waiting for someone with the knowhow to write a tape driver
anthony
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