I have one of those, and a seagate too. They work quite well, but will not
work properly with all backup packages (works fine with tar though).
With that said, I don't trust them enough to leave in a computer I
remotely administer for my mother 1K miles away - I got the scsi version
of the seagate for her. Of course performance is much better too.
Anyway, the drive will just work. The default RH kernels will detect it on
bootup, most likely as /dev/ht0.
You use 'mt' to muck with it, just like you would with a scsi tape. it
appears a few things don't work 100% like with a scsi drive. Usual things
you will do are things like
# rewind it
mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
# erase it
mt -f /dev/ht0 erase
# advance to end of last archive and append another backup
/bin/mt -f /dev/nht0 fsf 1
tar cf /dev/nht0 /etc /root /home
Oh, and notice I use /dev/nht0 for the non-rewinding device.
hth
charles
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Robert Friberg wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm hesitating between choosing an IDE or a scsi tape drive.
> Anyone have an IDE drive working with RH and some instructions
> on how to get things working? I've heard that this could be
> complicated.
>
> In particular I'm interested in:
>
> HP Colorado 8GB - IDE, internal
>
> These are pretty inexpensive compared to scsi drives, I wonder
> what the tradeoffs are.... besides performance, which is not
> an issue for me. Reliabilty is very important.
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