Redhat Linux 7.0 and External Colorado Tape Backup

[Roy Makrucki]

Hi

Does anybody know if drivers/utilities exist for the 7/14GB external Colorado tape backup to run under Linux?

Thanks

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

Roy,

You shouldn't need any Drivers. Just make sure that the Kernel understands the communications type (ie. IDE or SCSI). The Kernel will take care of the rest!

Hope that helps.

[Roy Makrucki]

The external tape drive plugs into the parallel port, printer is plugged into the drive. No SCSI, no IDE device- but a parallel device. I have KDat that came along my Linux distribution. It allows a tape device to be specified: /dev/tape, but I think it assumes an IDE device is installed. I can give it a new device, but I don't see/know of one to use in the /dev area. When I try to do anything it says "no tape in drive". Am I headed in the right direction: to look for a device in the /dev area to set in KDat?
Thanks.

[Dave Kelly_1]

You should try /dev/pt0 and see if that makes any difference.

As a starting point for more information, check

http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html