[CLUE-Tech] How to make Linux recognize IDE tape drive?

[David Guntner]

Hello,

I'm hoping that someone here can help me with this.

I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.0 (kernel 2.4.19), and have installed an old 
Seagate TR-4 IDE tape drive in the slave position (CD-ROM is in the master 
position on the cable) on the second IDE controller.

Mandrake has a hardware detector utility, which tells me that it see the 
tape drive on /dev/hdd.  Unfortunately, doing a "ls -la /dev/hdd" results 
in a "file not found" error....

I'd like to be able to use this tape drive to do backups of my system.  
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get my system to recognize that I have 
a tape drive, from a practical standpoint (I.E., so that backup software 
can use it)?

Any help would be appreciated!

                --Dave
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