From: ton@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Ton van Rosmalen) Subject: Re: Summary of: What tape drives work with Linux Date: 28 Sep 1992 12:29:59 GMT
Petri Juhani Riipinen (riipinen@dxcern.cern.ch) wrote:
: Summary of answers to question: What Tape Drives work with Linux?
:
: - There is a working QIC-02 device driver for Linux
: - It supports (at least) Everex/Wangtek cards
:
: - There are additional patches for the QIC-02 driver
: - They make the driver support Archive SC402/499R
:
: - The driver can be found from: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/alpha/qic-02
:
: - There are some bugs in the driver, but you can make backups with it.
:
: [stuff deleted concerning scsi/floppydisk tape-streamers]
I would like to know how to get a hold of the patches for the archive
controller. I have been working in them myself but I'm not satisfied
with it just yet. So I'd like to have look at the patches of someone
else.
The author has a *few* remarks about a kernel usleep(). I think there is
such a function in the kernel now. And is work being done to solve the
timing problems which it still has ? If not I hereby volunteer to do
this.
I hope to hear something about this Archive SC499 patch soon. Thanx
in advance.
Ton.