Re: Use /dev/st0 or /dev/ht0 - which one for a AIT IDE drive?

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe_at_harpo.csd.uu.se)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: 10 Jun 2004 15:11:08 +0100

In article <D0Zxc.1996$nW.1709@news.get2net.dk>,
Per Münster <nospam@nowhere.org> wrote:
>I need some help... on hardware addressing:
>
>I use a AIT IDE tape drive - The drive should have been moved to new and
>much
>faster server (2,4 ghz). It seems that in the faster server running the same
>RH version (RH8) as the older - requires the drive to be addressed as
>/dev/ht0 - the drive starts spinning, but fails to go very far. On the old
>server the drive is addressed as /dev/st0 - and it works properly. Why those
>different device names?
>
>Why the distinction between /dev/ht0 and /dev/st0?

/dev/ht0 is for when the unit is driven by ide-tape.
/dev/st0 is for when the unit is driven by ide-scsi + st.

The general consensus seems to be that ide-scsi+st is more
reliable than ide-tape. 

-- 
Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Computing Science Department, Uppsala University

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