Re: ide tape errors

[Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlantic.net>]

martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]:
>
> > This is the correct media for the drive to read and write?
>
> good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all
> TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i do have the original tape that shipped
> with the drive though, and that doesn't work either...
>
>
> > It's correctly installed on the ide chain?  Does the manual have
> > anything to say about needing to be a master or slave?
>
> the bios detects it, and so does linux, so this leads me to believe
> that yes. and it is!


To get my ide tape to work, I had to add

append="hdc=ide-scsi"

to lilo.conf.


> > I once tried to use an ide-tape drive with 4/8 gb travan tapes to no
> > avail.  Even though I could dump to the drive I never could get anything
> > back.  I'd check it very well before you trust it.
>
> mh, that's no good news...



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Jerome