Re: travan ide

[herve <hrichard@brutele.be>]

Le Lundi 17 Février 2003 20:35, Jeffrey L. Taylor a écrit :
> 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

thank you for your response i'll try....
can you tell me exactly what modules need to charged in order to use and ide 
travan tape ?

thx
	Herve