On Sunday 13 October 2002 19:24, you wrote:
> I hope someone can help me with this... :-)
>
> 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.
This sounds suss to me - the floppy tape drive as a hdx device ... hmmm.
Forget the gui, read
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ftape.txt, and
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Ftape-HOWTO.html
> 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.
>
> What do I have to do to create the appropriate link at this point to make
> things work? I suspect that MAKEDEV is involved, but I'm not sure what
> parameters should be used and so on.
Nothing's going to work until you've successfully loaded the ftape module,
insmod ftape, append to your etc/modules.conf with appropriate parameters, if
necessary ad/or desired, then try the utilities..
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