Off the top of my head, do you have the ide-tape driver installed
either as a module or compiled into the kernel? Note: most of the
/dev/ files exist, even if there is no support for the device on the
running system.
Note: the ide-tape driver has not supported my Seagate STT20000A,
ATAPI tape drive since 2.2.12. I don't know about the 8GB versions.
If you get fatal errors, try the SCSI emulation. It gives warnings,
but works.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Kenneth Payne
My SuSE Linux 7.3 installation has not set up my tape drive correctly.
The drive is attached to the IDE controller as primary slave. It is recognised by the BIOS. The drive whirrs reassuringly when a tape is inserted and also if I ask YAST2 to do a hardware probe.
Linux recognises the drive on boot-up. If I do a dmesg I can see the following lines : hda: WDC WD800BB-32CCB0, ATA DISK drive hdb: Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive hdc: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-216B Q001 20010913, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Linux seems to think that the tape drive is a disk: brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 64 Sep 24 01:54 /dev/hdb
But the tape devices are set up (it seems correctly) crw------- 1 root root 37, 0 Sep 24 01:54 /dev/ht0
However, any attempt to access the tape gives a "no such device" error.
For example, if I type (as root) :
mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
I get : mt: /dev/ht0: No such device
Any suggestions? The tape worked fine in my old machine running SuSE 7.0. I need to get it working in my new machine so I can transfer my backed-up data.
Thanks in advance
- Ken