I'd suggest checking out the parport mailing list. There's a home page at http://www.torque.net/parport/paride. I was redirected to gear.torque.net so if the first doesn't work try the second. Alternatively, just strip off the paride part of the URL for more general parallel port stuff. Here's a list of dependancies for parallel port ide tape: parport -> parport_pc -> paride -> [a protocol] -> pt. In modprobe terms this looks like: modprobe paride modprobe [a protocol] modprobe pt For protocol, you've got a choice between aten, bpck, comm, dstr, epat, epia, fit2, fit3, frpw, friq, kbic, ktti, on20, on26. You could just load all of these and see which one is used when you load pt. The default operation is for the device module (pt, pf, pcd, pd, pg) to loop through all the protocols with a few different ports and see if it finds something. When that happens it msgs to the console and you'll know which protocol to keep. I'm not a parport guru, the other folks on the list are. I do maintain the epat protocol module. Josh __SIG__ On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Raymond Norton wrote: > I see mixed info on whether a parallel port tape drive will work on Linux 6.2. I found a doc at redhat.com/support/alex/229.html that seemed to explain the process of getting it to work. I entered the statement "ln -s /dev/ht0/dev/tape" I know have a red blinking label that says Tape at my root. I can see I am supposed to add the ide-tape.o module, but am not sure how to get this done, or if it will work. Any detailed help would be appreciated. > > I am using a parallel port Colorado 350 with QIC-80 tapes > > > Raymond >