Jens,
A few years ago, I found myself in a tight spot trying to find application
software for IDE tape devices, whilst there seemed to be an abundance for
SCSI drives. If you still find this to be true, you'd probably make good
use of SCSI emulation for IDE which you can compile into your Linux
kernel. This will permit the system to treat your drive as SCSI, and use
associated software for it. I'll include the relevant help file from the
2.4.3 kernel compilation because it is what I have handy, but I don't
think its usage has changed significantly (if any) since the 2.2.x series.
Regards,
Brett WA7V
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI:
This will provide SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices,
and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native
ATAPI driver.
This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native
driver has been written (for example, an ATAPI PD-CD or CDR drive);
you can then use this emulation together with an appropriate SCSI
device driver. In order to do this, say Y here and to "SCSI support"
and "SCSI generic support", below. You must then provide the kernel
command line "hdx=scsi" (try "man bootparam" or see the
documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to
pass options to the kernel at boot time) for devices if you want the
native EIDE sub-drivers to skip over the native support, so that
this SCSI emulation can be used instead. This is required for use of
CD-RW's.
Note that this option does NOT allow you to attach SCSI devices to a
box that doesn't have a SCSI host adapter installed.
If both this SCSI emulation and native ATAPI support are compiled
into the kernel, the native support will be used.
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jens Schmidt wrote:
> I have recently acquired a Seagate STT220000A tape drive.
> It is an ATAPI 20 GB drive, and it works fine.
> When I started Linux, RedHat6.2, up, it asked me if I wanted
> to install it and did so when I agreed.
> I was not told how or where.
> It is installed as slave on the secondary IDE port, i.e. /dev/hdd.
> Any hint on where in documentation it is dealt with ?
> I obviously need to configure it in fstab, how ?, where else ?
> What application software is available, native or third party ?
> The tape media is factory formatted, and is supposed to stay
> that way. Do I need to install a file system on the tape ?
> All your help will be appreciated.
> Jens ZL2TJT
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