Topic: IDE Tape Drives

[gustav]

I saw that there is only 1 ide tape tested with esmith (per the manual--plus the 3or4 from redhat website).  I want to buy an ide tape drive.....but am not sure which one.  I dont need a 30gb tape, just like 3 gig.  Can anyone help with a few recommendations, and or experiences with various ide tape drives.??

thanks

[Boris]

One of the ATAPI "Travan 4" drives from Seagate (4Gb native/8Gb compressed) if a save bet. They sold for about $200. For few buck more you can get 10/20Gb "Hornet" for future growth.

[Mike Stoddart]

What does it take to install one of these? Is it internal? Do you have to reconfigure E-Smith?

Thanks

[Boris]

IDE (ATAPI) drives are internal.
I had to enable it via e-smith-manager and then change in the scripts "nst0" (SCSI tape drive) to "nht0" for IDE tape drive.
It al works great now.

[Charlie Brady]

Boris wrote:
 
> IDE (ATAPI) drives are internal.
> I had to enable it via e-smith-manager and then change in the
> scripts "nst0" (SCSI tape drive) to "nht0" for IDE tape drive.

Hi Boris,

On most systems ATAPI drives will work without any change, as SCSI emulation is enabled on all systems except those which already have a read SCSI adaptor.

On systems with SCSI hard drive or CDROM, and IDE tape drive, there is no need to edit any scripts. Instead, just make the appropriate change to the configuration database:

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop backup Device /dev/nht0
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event conf-backup

and everything relevant will now use /dev/nht0 and not /dev/nst0.

Regards

Charlie

[Boris]

Thanks, good to know. Next I will use that.

[jose velez]

I have two 20GB IDE hard drives connected and in the other port I hava a 20gb ide tape (seagate) and the Cdrom
 
The tape does not work.  Do I need to change anything in the scripts. HOW?