Ian Land wrote:
>
> hi all
>
> I have a Seagate STT8000-A ide tape drive. HardDrake shows the device as
> /dev/hdd and dmesg identifies it properly. Can't get tar
> or KDat to see it, however. I have a /dev/nht0 entry (which, as I understand
> it, is what I should use as the mount point), and the ide-tape module is
> loaded, but doing a mt -f /dev/nht0 status says no such device. Presumably
> there's something else I have to do but I can't work out what.
Maybe I don't know anything, but on my SCSI dat drive, when I use
cpio, I don't have to issue any mount commands. Just find /
-print | cpio -ov > /dev/st0.
Maybe that would work for your tape drive, just point to /dev/hdd
or whatever.
Just a suggestion, don't know if it will work.
Dan
