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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 12:32 PM Subject: re: tapes > 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? > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
