ftape is a driver for tape drives that connect to the floppy controller
of your computer. There also special `floppy tape controllers
' that
operate at a higher speed. But these are (more or less) floppy disk
controllers that are located at a hardware address different from the
one used by the standard floppy disk controller.
Some (all?) of those `high speed controllers
' are supported by ftape,
namely
Colorado CMS FC-10/FC-20
Mountain Mach-II
Intel 82078
based floppy disk controllers
This includes (but isn't limited to)
CTC-2Mb 2Mb Floppy Controller
'
Ditto Dash Controller
'
Rating specifications of those controllers (i.e. `2Mb
', `1Mb
')
are to be understood as `Bits Per Second
' NOT `Bytes
Per Second
'
ftape runs under Linux-1.2.13, Linux-2.0.* and Linux-2.1.*. Under Linux-2.0.* and Linux-2.1.* it can be used on Intel-x86 machines and on DEC Alpha machines. Ftape probably will not work with Linux-1.2.13 and DEC Alpha, but only with Intel-x86.
You may want to read through the file `RELEASE-NOTES
' for a short
revision history of ftape.
(You can view it here: RELEASE-NOTES)
What ftape is not:
`/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/tpqic02.c
'
instead.
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/st.c
' instead.
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/ide-tape.c
' instead.
(1) Conner was taken over by Seagate some time ago
(2) This is being worked on
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