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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: saleem khan on January 17, 2002, 01:49:21 PM
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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
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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.
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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