Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
run time tape driver detection/tape drive detection
Name: Rajesh Mistri Date: January 12, 2001 at 23:19:01 Pacific
Comment:
I have 8mm tape on my Linux RedHat 6.2 [Intel machine ] so i would like to detect tape diver at run time while i have done this on SGI machine.Could any body help to do so.
Name: Greg Copeland Date: March 30, 2001 at 13:07:20 Pacific
Reply:
You really need to provide more information. Is that an 8mm DAT? Is it SCSI, IDE? Who makes the drive? If it's SCSI, you need to make sure that you have the SCSI AHA driver loaded if it's a module, or, properly compile the kernel to support it. Additionally, you may need to install a kernel module (or recompile kernel) to support your tape drive.
Summary: i have a hp colorado 8 gig tape drive and installing it in slackware 7.1 with the default kernel. I have a scsi hard drive and cdrom, so the only device thats IDE is the tape drive. the tape drive get...
Summary: Have set up rh 8.0 but cannot get it to "see" the tape drive. Compaq ML370 server, has scsi raid array with 2 channels, one for the HD's and one for the tape drive. Have 3 HD's running raid 5, no prob...
Summary: hi, It's me again, I'm using RedHat 7.0 and want to use my Travan TR-3 tape drive in linux using Taper or any other s/w. I hook it up using the parallel port. The tape works under win'98 back up s/...
0 
linux books in pdf???
