8 Jun
2004
8 Jun
'04
2:46 a.m.
Hi all,
Anybody know how to access the above running under either DOS or
Linux?
It has a 5.25" floppy connector on it. I
don't have any drivers for
it (do I need them?), just a QS.EXE (QuicStream?) archive DOS app
which pukes with
a divide overflow error during its "Initializing tape drives" phase.
Knoppix doesn't even see it during HW detection. Any config pointers?
I'm not supprised that Knoppix doesn't have support (who really has
these laying around), but Linux does have support in the kernel for
these things (QIC-80 interfaces). It's called the "ftape" (floppy
tape) driver, but of course, I've never tried to use it as I stopped
using mine before I started using Linux. It was a pain to back up
200MB hard drives on 80/120MB (high density/XL) tapes, let alone when I
"finally got a huge" 540MB drive to put in that machine. It was an IBM
486-based machine, actually 11 years old now, so it is technically
on-topic. :)
Pat
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