On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:10:26PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am using kernel 2.4.16 and have IDE TAPE built into the kernel. At > boot I get a lot of info concerning the tape drive but when I attempt to > write to the tape drive it locks the entire system up and I have to > press the reset key (something like tar -zcpvf /dev/ht0 / as an > example-not the actual command). > > I know this is not much info but does someone know what is going on or > what information can I supply which might shed more light onto the > subject? I am just trying to keep this email short without copying > a lot of the dmesg output (There must be a page on the IDE Tape!). > > Lance >
Some IDE tape drives need ide-scsi to work. What is the model of your tape drive? -- Jerome
