Re: travan ide

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting herve <hrichard@brutele.be>:
> hello 
> i've got a stt28000a seagate travan and i have woody
> i load ise-scsi module then is recognized , /dev/st0 but when i type :
> 
> mt -f /dev/st0 status, it returns an I/O error
> 
> when i remove the cartridge and type ,mt -f /dev/st0 , it returns there is no 
> media (in this case it's a normal behaviour)
> 
> someone can help me 
> 

The key question is does it do what you ask.  IDE-SCSI emulation on
Travan drives (and other IIRC) gives benign warnings.  Try it out.

cd
export TAPE=/dev/st0
mt rewind
mt tell
tar cf /dev/st0 .
mt tell
mt rewind
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
tar xf /dev/st0
find . -type f -exec diff ../\{} \{} \;

If there is no output from the last command, everything is fine.
Note: I have not tried this out with symlinks.  YMMV

The values reported by the "mt tell" commands is left as an exercise
for the reader.

HTH,
  Jeffrey