Ed Tharp grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On Sunday 13 October 2002 08:18 am, Brian Parish wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 19:24, David Guntner wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got a Travan TR-4 (IDE) tape drive in my system. It's in the slave
> > > spot on the IDE cable in IDE controller 1, with the CD-ROM in the master
> > > position. When I fire up Mandrake Control Center and click on "Hardware"
> > > in the left-hand side of the display, it identifies the tape drive as
> > > being on /dev/hdd.
> > >
> > > Trying to run the Mandrake supplied backup software and specifying a tape
> > > drive of /dev/hdd doesn't work. It just says no such device. In fact,
> > > when I do a "ls -la /dev/hdd," I get a no such file message.
> >
> > I don't have one, so this is a bit of a guess, but could ide-scsi
> > emulation be involved and could the drive therefore be on scd-something?
I don't think it's one of those... :-)
> I ain't got one (that I use anymore anyway) so I ain't sure either , but you
> might have to mount it? or what folders do you have in /mnt ?
Nothing related to tape. :-) I do have the mt-st package installed, and
when looking at the output of the Mandrake backup program (called from
within the Mandrake Control Center), I see lines like:
mt -f /dev/hdd status
mt: /dev/hdd: no such file
Even though the "Hardware" section of the MCC shows that the tape drive is
present and is /dev/hdd. There is no "hdd" link/file in /dev. Reading the
man page for MOUNTDEV (yes, all in caps) suggests that I need to use that
to create the /dev/hdd entry, but I don't know what parameters I should use
to get it to work with this kind of tape drive.
Any ideas?
--Dave
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