ftape-HOWTO

Kai Harrekilde-Petersen, khp@pip.dknet.dk

v1.0, December 11th, 1994 for ftape-1.14d


This HOWTO discuss the essentials of the do's and dont's for the ftape driver under Linux. The ftape driver interfaces to QIC-80 and QIC-40 compatible drives only. These drives connects via the floppy controller. It does not cover SCSI or QIC-02 tape drives. DAT tape drives usually (always?) connect to a SCSI controller. This is but one of the Linux HOWTO documents. You can get the HOWTO's from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/doc/HOWTO (this is the ``official'' place) or via the web from the Linux Documentation home page . You cannot rely on the HOWTO's being posted to comp.os.linux.announce, as some newsfeeds have complained about their size.

1. Legalese

2. News flash

3. The preliminaries

4. Getting and installing ftape

5. (Un)supported hardware

6. Backing up and restoring data

7. Frequently Asked Questions

8. Debugging the ftape driver