He could also look at the Floppy drive controller based Tape units (I have both an Colorado and a Ditto tape unit that work, although they are far too small for current HDs) or he could look at an IDE or EIDE based tape unit, which I know are available. Sure, some tape drives require a PCI slot, but not all of them do. Bill Ward -----Original Message----- From: Jason Costomiris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 4:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil Subject: Re: USB PORT & TAPE DRIVES On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 09:14:07AM -0500, Jon Knews wrote: : I have a HP 8560C Pavillion which I upgraded with different video card and : sound card than the stock, which was not supported for Linux. As such I : used up all the 3 PCI slots in the computer, and well, that's all she wrote. : I do have 2 USB ports on it, and I'd like to know if there are any tape backup : devices that would run on a USB port. Please let me know - send email : to me direct too. There's always the SuSE labs backport of the 2.3 USB code... http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/ I don't know of any USB tape devices, but you could get a USB -> SCSI adapter. I *think* those are supported by the backport... -- Jason Costomiris <>< Technologist, cryptogeek, human. jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/ -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
