fedora-list Digest, Vol 25, Issue 348

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 17:08 -0500, Thomas Allen wrote:
> The tape drive that i HAVE IS A atapi Seagate STT20000A 20gig travan
> drive. Not sure how to get this to work.....When I type dmesg I get the
> following:
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: WDC WD200EB-00BHF0, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: SONY CDU4811, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> hdc: Seagate STT20000A, ATAPI TAPE drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: max request size: 128KiB
> hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63,
> UDMA(66)
> hda: cache flushes not supported
>  hda: hda1 hda2
> hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> 
> 
> any ideas?
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about?

ide tape drives are known to be a pita to get working

you are probably gonna have to do do some searching in mt, perhaps make
a symlink to /dev/nst0

Were you looking to do tar/cpio type backups or did you intend to
install a full fledged application such as amanda or bacula?

I've only used SCSI tape drives, used amanda previously, am now playing
with bacula...both are very sophisticated and effective, neither are
easy to get started.

What is the question?

Craig