Hi All, I just aquired a Seagate ATAPI STT8000A tape drive and would like to make it work on a debian 2.2 system running 2.2.14, (was a 2.1, haven't gotten around to setting up new kernel).
dmesg shows: hdd: Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive and then, at the very end: hdd: driver not present hdd: driver not present hdd: driver not present I know nothing about ATAPI tape drives, (and very little about SCSI) . Searching about the web and looking through dmseg and some info's leads me to believe that i should be able to use some traditional tool, (would like to use tar) and give it a device file, this is what i would like to due. I have never used taper or any of it's ilk and i have a gaggle of backup related script that i would like to continue using. I have read about various rewinding and non-rewinding devices but i have _NONE_ of them in my /dev dir. (looked for n* h* r* all fruitless). I have the latest version of MAKEDEV, (starting to graspp here... :) but what major/ minor to use, regradless, making new device files is something i have not really done. Where to go next? Can someone refer me towards some useful docs. Thanks for the help, truly appreciated. -jereme -- +--------------------------------------------------------------+ Jereme Corrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Administrator Restorative Management Corp. "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
