tlug: /dev/ftape and grandchildren

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com> writes:

    Tony> I am trying to figure out how to make a Colorado Trakker 250
    Tony> (parallel port tape drive) work with Linux.

Some Colorado models had problems, IIRC.  Check hardware compatiblity
list.  I haven't used ftape in a long time, so I don't know current
status.

    Tony> tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive /dev/ftape: Device not configured

    Tony> /dev/ftape -> rft0

Does /dev/rft0 exist?  It's possible that your base system is old
enough that the device node hasn't been created.  grep for ftape or
floppy tape in /dev/MAKEDEV, and see which devices it creates for the
floppy tapes.

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt for Linux 2.2.14 indicates
that the correct name for that series of devices is /dev/*qft[0-3],
not /dev/*rft[0-3].  See if /dev/qft0 exists and make a link to that.

You should consider using the n?zqft0 device instead, since that does
transparent compression.  I don't know what the advantage of that over
letting tar do it is, so ask somebody else ;-)

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