Re: Parallel Tape drives

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Sat, 24 Jan 1998 21:25:16 -0500 (EST)


> Does linux support parallel tape drives (like the iomega ditto 800 drive)?

AFAIK no, only floppy, SCSI, IDE and QIC-02 drives.

According to v1.7.1 (an old one) of the Ftape-HOWTO:

Generally, ALL drives that connect to the parallel port are NOT
supported. This is because these drives [use] (different) proprietary
interfaces, that are very much different from the QIC-117 standard.
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Trevor Johnson