-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 at 10:34:25PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > 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.
Thanks Jeffery, One more question. Is there an IDE drive that would work better with Linux than the Travan? I am looking for an IDE/Tape Backup solution that hopefully works with the standard tools. I am not much into the FTape technologies. We need something that would hold several GB. If anyone knows of a better IDE drive than the Travan I would appreciate some feedback. Thanks again, - -- Phillip Hofmeister PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/key.asc | gpg --import -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQsUKS3Jybf3L5MQRArxWAKCIQv//7efHIGhfBy4rciRdrfH08gCfZdFP UoTqa5mkaCrIrp1vA7Ap1ME= =bmNK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
