In article <C5qH3H.5pI@agora.rain.com> crittew@agora.rain.com (Walt Crittenden) writes:

   I'm trying to get my Linux box to talk to my Mountain Tape drive.  The tape
   drive works fine from DOS, but I have to go through its proprietary
   software to do so; of course, this software doesn't run under Linux.  How
   can I use this tape drive from Linux?  I suppose I need to write a 
   device name/driver for it?  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I had this problem.  The supported QIC tapes are QIC-36 types (Wangtek
5150 etc) and the Mountain one (at least the one which has "Mountain
QIC-02" written on it) is QIC-02 which doesn't seem to like to talk to
the code.  Needless to say, Mountain were totally uncooperative when I
asked about specs for the controller and drive.

I swapped my Mountain tape for a Wangtek one......  :-)
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