Topic: IDE tape drive not recognised

[ReetP]

Just thrown a Freecom TapeWare AIT-460i ATAPI tape drive into my ageing server.

http://www.freecom.com/ecProduct_detail.asp?ID=1725&nr=23898&prodn=Freecom+TapeWare+AIT%2D460i+ATAPI

It doesn't get recognised by the BIOS, although I am not sure if that is the problem.

I have looked through various FAQs & posts but can't see anything particularly helpful.

Drives :
hda & hdc - 80Gb hard drives mirrored
hdb - tape
hdd - cd

Added append = "hdb=ide-scsi" to lilo.conf, ran lilo & rebooted but cat /proc/scsi/scsi still reports no devices.

In a bizarre twist of fate, if I rmmod ide-scsi and ide-cdrom and then modprobe ide-scsi, cat /proc/scsi/scsi reports :

[root@esmith etc]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi                                          Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SAMSUNG  Model: CD-ROM SC-140B   Rev: BS12
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02

It didn't do this directly after booting though. Is the CD overruling the tape ?

Anyone got any bright ideas cos I'm stuck ! Could it be that the motherboard is too ancient to deal with it (it does manage to support a couple of new 80Gb drives though) or is there something I have missed ?

[ReetP]

Problem solved.

Check the bleeding obvious first - the cable was not quite inserted properly.

AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH !!!!

Can't get flexbackup working correctly at the minute so am trying Tapeware too see what happens.