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I have been pulling my hair out trying to get an IDE Tape drive to work under RH 9.0, I am new to linux backups. I have been searching the forum and have not been able to fix my problem. Here is what's going on. The tape drive is an OnStream IDE Drive. It is detected durring startup and assigned /dev/hdc, now how do i access this drive for doing tar's, rewinds, erase... etc.
I have tried everything.
Thanks.
I used to have similar problems with floppy tape support on SuSE. I had to add several lines in /etc/modules.conf to activate tape support.
IDE tape support would be enough different that my changes to /etc/modules.conf would not help you. I suggest that you use Google to find how somebody changed /etc/modules.conf to make IDE tapes work on Red Hat.
If i do a 'dmesg | grep hdc' i find that hdc <--> ht0, so now if i try 'mt -f /dev/ht0 status I get 'Device or resource busy'. Now if I do a 'dmesg | grep ht0' i get:
IMHO
I would think the tape drive would work better if you setup SCSI emulation. If you already have a CD writer just add another line to your bootloader i.e. append="hdc=ide-scsi"
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Ok, now do i add the modpro command to my grub.conf as well?? It was not loaded when i did a lsmod. What exactly do I do with it?
One place you can put it is in /etc/modules.conf
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Thanks for all the help. mt -f /dev/osst0 status will gives results.
However for some reason if there is a tape in the drive, it seems to lock up the system when I do that??? Also, i just tried to test out backing up to the drive by doing a:
tar cvf /dev/osst0 ./testfile
and I get:
tar: /dev/osst0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
by doing a dmesg i get:
osst0:I: Device did not become Ready in open
then the tape ejects itself.
Last edited by jwatco2001; 07-01-2003 at 12:07 PM.
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