Joshua,
That was the problem. Thanks for the help.
Here is what I did in case anyone wants a quick reference.
This configuration is for Linux kernel 2.4.17 using 'make menuconfig'
01) Select 'ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support'
02) Select 'IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices'
03) Enable 'SCSI emulation support'
04) Go back to the Main Menu and choose 'SCSI support'
05) Enable 'SCSI support' and 'SCSI generic support'
06) Make your new kernel
07) Add the line 'append="<DEVICE>=ide-scsi"' to lilo.conf where
<DEVICE> is your tape drive. Here is what mine looks like:
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
08) Run 'lilo'
09) Add 'modprobe ide-scsi' to the bottom of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local
file
10) Reboot
11) Run 'lsmod' and make sure you see 'ide-scsi' in the list of modules
12) Give the amanda group (or whatever you specified in --with-user=)
permission to write to '/dev/nst0' - 'chown root.amanda /dev/nst0'
13) Link '/dev/tape' to '/dev/nst0' - 'ln -s /dev/nst0 /dev/tape'
14) Use 'mt' to see if it worked - 'mt status'
I hope that is everything.
--Cassidy
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Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:50 PM
To: Cassidy Kern
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Subject: Re: Taper hangs and my backup fails
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 at 2:40pm, Cassidy Kern wrote
> tapedev "/dev/nht0"
>
> # tapetype section
> tapetype Seagate_Travan_20
> labelstr "^Daily[0-9][0-9]*"
There has been some discussion of IDE tape drives recently, and the
consensus seemed to be to use ide-scsi and use them as SCSI devices.
Search the list archives for details, and give that a shot.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
