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

[Chris Mills]

David,

I can't say I know Mandrake, but if I recall
correctly, RedHat doesn't build the IDE Tape device
into the kernel. Try a 'modprobe ide-tape' and see
whether you get anywhere...

Chris
--- David Guntner <davidg at akamail.com> wrote:
> 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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