IDE Tape Drive Compatibilty

From: Tony Jenkins (tony_jenkins_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:58:48 -0500

Is it possioble to get a Seagate Travan drive to work under linux. I am
trying to configure my Seagate STT20000 10/20 ide tape drive under Mandrake
10 (download version). I previously tried Fedora 2 and SUSE 9.1. Upon boot
the drive is recognized properly and given the value of ht0. However,
neither mt nor Mandrake's built in backup can operate the drive. mt gives an
"i/o error"and the built=in software reports "no device found". Modprobe
shows that the ide-tape moduke is loaded and the tape was recognized under
another version of linux.

I would especially like to configure the drive the run in scsi emulation so
that it can be used by the widest array of software, but at this point, I'd
settle just for its running.

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