Re: Iomega Ditto 2GB

Josh Goins (joshg@newwave.net)
Fri, 01 Aug 1997 14:49:00 -0400


The latest version of ftape is suposed to have expiremental support for
it. But, I haven't compiled it yet...

-Josh

Jonathan Herringer (PHY) wrote:

> I have one of these too! In the ftape howto it states that our drive
> has
> a proprietary data format so a driver couldn't be written
> and at Iomega's web page it says linux and unix isn't supported as of
> yet.
>
> I think that we linuxers need to pester these companies until they see
>
> that were serious!!
>
> On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Patrik Backstrom wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I would like to know if it's possible to use a Iomega Ditto 2GB with
>
> > Linux? I think it's some kind of Travan drive, and as far i as i
> know,
> > Travan should be supported.
> >
> > Has anyone had any experience with this Tape Drive ?
> >
> > /pb
> >
> >
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