On Wednesday 25 September 2002 09:03 am, you wrote: > RE: Hp Colorado drives and errors > reading data on Mardrake 8.0 > x86 2.4.3 kernel. > > this problem is already solved? > -------------------------------- > > By following this link: > > http://www.mandrakeexpert.com/showarchive.php?arc=30224 > > you will find a description of an often reported problem > with reading data from HP Colorado/Travan type magnetic > tape drives. this incident is closed however the solution > is not described therein (is this on purpose?). anyway the > last entry is: > > ========================== > Nickrgv : 30/08 06:35 : More info provided This worked perfectly. > Just the lilo.conf and rc.local to edit and everything looks good. > > Many thanks, you are indeed an expert! > > Cheers > Nick > ========================== > > this is also my problem. what is the solution? > > regards, > shane > > P.S. two follow on questions: > > 1. my HP Colorado 20GB is an IDE drive. > why does mt status report it as SCSI2? scsi2? or scsi? many IDE devices have to be scsi emulated and editing lilo's append statement is one way to pass that info and the specs to the Kernel, like how a cdwriter is scsi emulated. remember to rerun /sbin/lilo after you edit lilo. I am not sure about the scsi2 tho. maybe an entire different ball of wax. I am guessing that based on the "Just the lilo.conf and rc.local to edit" statement. rc.local is short for "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" a text file many folks consider to be somewhat like "autoexec.bat" in a DOS computer, that is, the last file called as the computer is booting up. this is where I would put any command line that I wanted to be run after most every driver (module) is loaded, but before XFree86 starts.
> 2. i can only write (and read with error) > to /dev/nht0. if i use /dev/ht0 an > error is reported as if there's no such > thing. why? what is the error? (see note below) if it reported there was no such thing, chances are either there is no such thing, or the user does not have permission to see the thing. a soft link could do it for you (I believe) if you "really" _need_ a /dev/ht0. NOTE below; unlike some of our experiences with other OSs, the error messages in GNU-linux very often contain information that may be of some help in troubleshooting the malfunction, so an exact copy of the error message is often a big help in diagnostics.
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