> Red Hat doesn't support IDE tape out of the box. With
>a kernel recompile you should be ready to go.
actually, I think it does... (see below)
> Turn on support for IDE tape in the IDE section of the
>kernel config, then turn on ftape support in the character device
>section. Recompile, install the new kernel, and you should have
>a happy tape drive available at /dev/ht0
Before doing a recompile, I told BRU to use /dev/ht0 and it WORKED! Talked
to the drive just fine. This is w/ RedHat 5.0 w/ the 2.0.32 RPM update.
Interesting,
Brian
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