David Guntner (me) grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> 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.
Drat. Sorry, that should be MAKEDEV, not MOUNTDEV. But yes, it's all in
caps. :-)
> Any ideas?
>
> --Dave
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