On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > Hi Dan -- > You said: > > On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > > > The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020. > > > > This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..)
This is a QIC3020 Travan tape drive, connected to the integrated floppy controller on my motherboard, p166 trition VX. > board, then you have to use 3010 tapes (which have half the capacity) > and you will write data at about one-quarter of the speed you'd > otherwise get. After reading this, I slapped a mini cartridge in there, and it works! Thanks Susan! Now my question is, the tapes are TR-3 Extras. When is a travan tape drive not a travan tape drive? I mean, isnt it a standard? > Also, on Oct. 8, Bas Laarhoven wrote to comp.os.linux.hardware: > "Ftape-2.10 will be out R.S.N. > It supports QIC-3020 at 2 Mbps and the Exabyte Eagle drive..." > I eagerly await it! In the mean time, I will back up to the mini cartridges, although it will take 7-10 of them to back my system up :( -- Walter L. Preuninger II waldo on #unix at irc.wasteland.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://walterp.rapidramp.com> L I N U X --- Where you will want to be! -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
