Topic: STT220000A-M Seagate IDE compatibility

[saleem khan]

Hi,

I has anyone got the STT220000A-M 10/20 GB Int IDE T20 Seagate IDE internal tape drive to work with e-smith V5 ?

I want to use a ata ide tape drive but the models defined in the compatibility list on the e-smith site mentions old 200000 tape drives which are very hard to find.

Also the contributed howto about installing an ide tape at

http://myezserver.com/docs/mitel/idetape-howto.html

talks about an ide tape drive yet when running the command

mt -f /dev/st0 status
   SCSI 2 tape drive:
   File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0.
   Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x47 (unknown to this mt).
   Soft error count since last status=0
   General status bits on (1010000):
   ONLINE IM_REP_EN


clearly refers to a scsi 2 tape drive.

Can anyone provide the correct mount command for the ide drive ?

Also does the command have to be added to the fstab file so that the ide tape drive is mounted everytime the e-smith machine is rebooted ?

Any help much appreciated.

saleem

[NickR]

I have one working at a client - no trouble with it at all, other than tape sense messages in /var/log/messages saying it can't determine the tape block size and defaults to 0 (!).

Don't worry that the mount point is /dev/st0 - AFAIK, Linux always uses a SCSI mount point for tape devices, no matter what the physical interface is.

[saleem khan]

Thanks for that nick.

I must admit that the scsi interface use when I am using an ide device was abit confusing.

I am waiting for the drive to arrive and hopefully will get it running.

Thanks

saleem