On Tuesday 18 February 2003 19:30, Mark Berry wrote: > Hi > Has anyone any experience of setting up a IDE tape drive? I have a HP > Colorado "Travan" which is recognised as /dev/hdg but there are no > entries in /etc/fstab so I can't mount it.
I used to have an old Jumbo 250 installed and working with a 3.x or 4.x Slackware once. You need the tape-related files installed if they are nto already, such as mt. To use the drive, you don't mount it, but you read from and write to the device with data transfer applications like dd or tar. You use mt to position the tape or rewind it. Sorry this isn't much help, I haven't used a tape for some years. I assume there are some docs included with the tape package(s) that should help.
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