I use the Seagate Travan units.  They are SCSI, so you should have SCSI 
support in your kernel.  The devices start at st0 (scsi tape zero). 
 Check to see if the device exists in /dev.

I have 4 of these in one machine, so I have st0, st1, st2, st3

As far as I know, there is no "special drivers" for these tape units. 
 Tar should write to them just fine, however, I use an extremely old 
version of bru to handle the backups.  I believe bru just uses tar, 
though.  You might try a test with something like:

"# tar -czvf /dev/st0 /some/temporary/non-critical/directory/*"

then check the results with:

"# tar -tzvf /dev/st0"

Lose the quotes, of course.  The -tzvf should give you a screen dump of 
whats on the tape.

Hope this helps.

-John



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