Re: Question RE IDE Tape Drives
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 at 10:34:25PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a
> > Debian box.
> >
> > My question is, what kernel support would one build into the kernel in
> > order to get such a drive working?
> >
> > My first thought would be to use the IDE-SCSI Emulation and then enable
> > the SCSI Tape support. After that use the mt tools as if it were a SCSI
> > Tape device. Would this work?
>
> This is correct. The ide-tape driver was broken starting several
> years ago for this tape drive. I have it on my todo list to check the
> ide-tape driver again, but haven't gotten to it. The ide-scsi driver
> will give errors but they are benign. Save and restore a file to
> check/convince yourself.
Thanks Jeffery,
One more question. Is there an IDE drive that would work better with
Linux than the Travan?
I am looking for an IDE/Tape Backup solution that hopefully works with
the standard tools. I am not much into the FTape technologies. We need
something that would hold several GB.
If anyone knows of a better IDE drive than the Travan I would appreciate
some feedback.
Thanks again,
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