ftape-HOWTO

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

v1.53, 2 July 1995 for ftape-2.03b

This HOWTO discuss the essentials of the do's and dont's for the ftape driver under Linux. The ftape driver interfaces to QIC-40, QIC-80, QIC-3010 and QIC-3020 compatible drives only. The QIC-3010 and QIC-3020 standards are also known as `QIC-WIDE'. These drives connects via the floppy disk controller (FDC). 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 an index of the HOWTOs from the Linux HOWTO index , while the real HOWTO's can be fetched (using ftp) from sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/doc/HOWTO (this is the ``official'' place) or via the World Wide Web from the Linux Documentation Project home page .

1. Legalese

2. News flash

3. The preliminaries

4. Getting and installing ftape

5. (Un)supported hardware

6. Backing up and restoring data

7. Creating an emergency boot floppy for ftape

8. Frequently Asked Questions

9. Debugging the ftape driver