On Thu Dec 07 2000 at 09:25, "Chris Knipe" wrote: > Hi All, > > I was just wondering if someone can perhaps tell me if I can use IDE Tape > Drives with Linux? > > We are looking at one of the HP Tape Drives at the moment, a 5GB IDE Tape > Streamer, but we've been told the IDE drive isn't going to work with > Linux... Do we have to go SCSI or will IDE work? Yes. (Of course). Look at the ftape stuff, IIRC that's where the ide tape stuff has been developed. (Apologies if that is misleading... it has been a while since I had a close look at that stuff. But ide tape drivers are there). Cheers Tony -=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=- Tony Nugent <Tony@growzone.com.au> Systems Administrator, RHCE GrowZone OnLine - regional internet services for Southern Qld POBox 475 Toowoomba Oueensland Australia 4350 Ph: 07 4637 8322 -=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
