Thomas Allen wrote:
The tape drive that i HAVE IS A atapi Seagate STT20000A 20gig travan drive. Not sure how to get this to work.....When I type dmesg I get the following: Probing IDE interface ide0... ... hdc: Seagate STT20000A, ATAPI TAPE drive
I have been using the following to set up a Seagate STT8000A, where the tape is hdb. DMA has not worked with ide tape drives after kernel 2.6.9. See Bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150335
1. append hdb=ide-scsi to grub.conf boot command 2. turn off DMA for tape drive: a) use "MAKEDEV hdb" to create /dev/hdb b) "cp -a /dev/hdb /etc/udev/devices" c) add "hdparm -d0 /dev/hdb" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local to turn off DMA Craig
