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Chapter 1: Introduction

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

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:


(1) Conner was taken over by Seagate some time ago

(2) This is being worked on


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