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HP colorado 8gb tape drive for backup ubuntu driver required.

Asked by Londonman

Hi there

I am looking for a driver that will work with the following device under ubuntu 10.10

HP colorado 8gb tape drive

Using Daja Dup Backup Tool
The unit is connected and powered up but the system has not been able to fine it.
Tried and still searching the net for a driver but only seem to find windows ones.

Hope you can help here or point me in the right direction

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

How does the tape drive connect to the system?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

This unit consist of two parallel ports one for the printer to be
attached to.

According to:
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Hardware-HOWTO/parallel.html

It is supported in Linux

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-backport-maverick/2.6.35-22.34~lucid1

Smells like its the right trail to me

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Londonman (londonman100) said : 		#4

Thank you for the reply.
from reading the ling it looks good, so i do not need any drivers her.

However i have connect the taper drive up with out a printer connected to it for simplicity, but it is not recognized by Ubuntu system and i cannot gain access to it, or do i need to do any thing specific to access the drive or even see the drive at all.

I would be grateful for any help her step by step to get this up and running if not ill have to send it to the dump.

In the meantime i am just going to double check again to ensure it is all set up correctly.
Thanks.

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