I have a client who is running Debian 1.3.1 on a pentium box with a Seagate STT8000A tape drive and IDE disk and CDROM. I have been assured that the tape is installed as a slave drive on the same controller as the IDE disk, and is jumpered properly. Debian was "installed" for him by the hardware vendor, who apparently just installed base, answering "no" to all questions. I built a new 2.0.33 kernel with ide tape support and had him install it (I'm doing all this by telephone and snail mail). He sees ide tape mentioned in the boot messages now, but says that he can't get the tape to do anything. He's tried running his 'Lonetar' tape software, and also tried 'cat /dev/ht0'. I got him trying a few more things now. I had him run 'MAKEDEV ht0' and 'MAKEDEV nht0': no help.
He tells me that he does get a reaction from the tape when he prods /dev/rft3, but that lonetar won't accept rft3 as a device. Can someone who has had experience with IDE tape and/or the STT8000A give me some advice? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
