----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 16, 2003 10:06 am Subject: Re: (clug-talk) ide tape drive
> At 07:18 AM 1/16/03, you wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I am trying to get an Imation IDE 40 gig travan tape drive > configured with > >RH7.3. I am not even sure what this device is supposed to mounted > as? I've > >been through linuxdoc.org for the howto but its for floppy tape > drives and > >has not been updated since 98. > > I have never worked with the IDE version but I believe that you > just need > to load the ide-tape kernel module and use your mt command to > control it. This is it in dmesg, I have tried numerous mounts? ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide ide-tape: Dumping ATAPI Identify Device tape parameters ide-tape: Protocol Type: <6>ATAPI ide-tape: Device Type: 1 - <6>Streaming Tape Device ide-tape: Removable: Yes ide-tape: Command Packet DRQ Type: <6>Accelerated DRQ ide-tape: Command Packet Size: <6>12 bytes ide-tape: Model: Seagate STT3401A ide-tape: Firmware Revision: 309A ide-tape: Serial Number: hp0069r ide-tape: Write buffer size: 0 bytes ide-tape: DMA: No ide-tape: LBA: Yes ide-tape: IORDY can be disabled: Yes ide-tape: IORDY supported: Yes ide-tape: ATAPI overlap supported: No ide-tape: PIO Cycle Timing Category: 2 ide-tape: DMA Cycle Timing Category: 0 ide-tape: Single Word DMA supported modes: <6> ide-tape: Multi Word DMA supported modes: <6> ide-tape: Enhanced PIO Modes: Mode 3 ide-tape: Minimum Multi-word DMA cycle per word: <6>Not supported ide-tape: Manufacturer's Recommended Multi-word cycle: <6>Not supported ide-tape: Minimum PIO cycle without IORDY: <6>180 ns ide-tape: Minimum PIO cycle with IORDY: <6>180 ns ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0: Seagate STT3401A rev 309A ide-tape: Dumping the results of the MODE SENSE packet command ide-tape: Mode Parameter Header: ide-tape: Mode Data Length - 23 ide-tape: Medium Type - 149 ide-tape: Device Specific Parameter - 18 ide-tape: Block Descriptor Length - 0 ide-tape: Capabilities and Mechanical Status Page: ide-tape: Page code - 42 ide-tape: Page length - 18 ide-tape: Read only - No ide-tape: Supports reverse space - Yes ide-tape: Supports erase initiated formatting - Yes ide-tape: Supports QFA two Partition format - Yes ide-tape: Supports locking the medium - Yes ide-tape: The volume is currently locked - No ide-tape: The device defaults in the prevent state - No ide-tape: Supports ejecting the medium - Yes ide-tape: Supports error correction - Yes ide-tape: Supports data compression - No ide-tape: Supports 512 bytes block size - Yes ide-tape: Supports 1024 bytes block size - Yes ide-tape: Supports 32768 bytes block size / Restricted byte count for PIO transfers - No ide-tape: Maximum supported speed in KBps - 4000 ide-tape: Continuous transfer limits in blocks - 64 ide-tape: Current speed in KBps - 755 ide-tape: Buffer size - 8388608 ide-tape: Adjusted block size - 22790 ide-tape: decreasing stage size ide-tape: decreasing stage size ide-tape: decreasing stage size ide-tape: decreasing stage size ide-tape: decreasing stage size ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0: 755KBps, 184*44kB buffer, 25549kB pipeline, 50ms tDSC ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
