TapeStor <Solved_not>

[Ted Ozolins]

Ted Ozolins wrote:

>> ated.
>>
> It sure helps a lot when support for hardware is enabled in the 
> kernel. All works well now<G>
>
Having compiled support for ide tape in the kernel and seeing /dev/ht0 
created, I assumed that all was well. The character device is created 
but when trying to access the drive with:
mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind, I get the error "no device or address found" I 
then linked /dev/th0 to /dev/tape and still get the same error. Googling 
I found some suggestions that some of these tapes do not play well 
unless you use scsi emulation. I compiled this into the kernel, rebooted 
and /dev/sg1 (a link to /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/generic) If I 
try to use it I get the error that "operation not permitted" I've run 
out of Ideas. The tape I'm trying this with is new the tape drive, a 
Seagate STT8000A, is new out of the box. this is on a gentoo system (up 
to date) using  2.6.8-r1 kernel.  Any suggestions, ideas?  Anything else 
I should try (waving chicken feet didn't work <G>) 

TIA

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Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C