Topic: HELP: IDE tape not reconized ...(HP Colorado 20 GB)

[DINCLAUX Laurent]

I'm running SME 5.1.2 and it seem it don't reconize my IDE tape - HP Colorado 20 GB -

It is well reconized by the bios.

Is there anything tio do to mount the tape volume ?

Thanks for your help.

PS excuse my poor english as I am french spoken...

[DINCLAUX Laurent]

See that. Really need help for it PLEASE!

[root@e-smith /root]# /bin/mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
/dev/st0: Input/output error
[root@e-smith /root]#

[Bobby]

Did you set the tape drive to be ide-scsi?

[DINCLAUX Laurent]

I've got that in my /etc/modules.conf (many blank lines at the bigining)

alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd

Is that what you meen ?

[Bobby]

At the end of lilo.conf do you have:
append=" hdc=ide-scsi"

hdc, in my case, was the ide tape drive.  it needs to be hdx, where x is your tape drive.

NOTE:  There is a space after the quote and before the hdc.

[DINCLAUX Laurent]

How can i know the drive letter of the tape ?
There's my lilo.conf
Thanks




map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/mitel.pcx
linear
default=esmith

       







image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-7.0.8
        label=esmith
        read-only