Thanks Carlos, I'll look into it! As I understand the concept, I really (somehow) need to make the system believe that the tape drive is a SCSI drive. It's easy with the ATAPI CD-writer, but that can be the fact that they're sitting directly on the IDE bus.. On my setup I have one more step, the commands will go through the parallel port and then "convert back" to ATAPI commands in the tape drive. I opened up the drive and checked out the translation chip, it's Shuttle's EPAT Plus chip, so the epat.o module is a must anyway. I just can't get into my brain how I should make the SCSI emulation to work.. I found a page; http://www.torque.net/parport/ppscsi.html but I don't understand the concept... I guess I've been staring way too much on this now, I'm getting blind I think.. *sigh* Later, Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting
The 03.07.17 at 13:28, Anders Norrbring wrote:
The TR4-5-7 drives uses QIC-157 interface standards and I can't for my life find any relevant information on how to use it, what modules to load etc. So I really hope somebody here knows how I can solve it.
I don't... but I found some docs:
/usr/share/doc/howto/en/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.gz /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/Ftape-HOWTO.html /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/Hardware-HOWTO/tape.html /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/INFO-SHEET-3.html /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html_single/Unix-Hardware-Buyer-HOWTO.html /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/Kernel-HOWTO-4.html
All of them have the work "QIC" on them; wether they are relevant or not, I leave to you :-)
Indeed, both the /html_single/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO.html and /html/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/st.html have the word "QIC-157" on them ;-)
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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