Quoting Phillip Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hash: SHA1 > > All, > > I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a > Debian box. > > My question is, what kernel support would one build into the kernel in > order to get such a drive working? > > My first thought would be to use the IDE-SCSI Emulation and then enable > the SCSI Tape support. After that use the mt tools as if it were a SCSI > Tape device. Would this work? >
This is correct. The ide-tape driver was broken starting several years ago for this tape drive. I have it on my todo list to check the ide-tape driver again, but haven't gotten to it. The ide-scsi driver will give errors but they are benign. Save and restore a file to check/convince yourself. HTH, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
