David Guntner (me) grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Ed Tharp grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > On Sunday 13 October 2002 08:18 am, Brian Parish wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 19:24, David Guntner wrote: > > > > > > > > I've got a Travan TR-4 (IDE) tape drive in my system. It's in the slave > > > > spot on the IDE cable in IDE controller 1, with the CD-ROM in the master > > > > position. When I fire up Mandrake Control Center and click on "Hardware" > > > > in the left-hand side of the display, it identifies the tape drive as > > > > being on /dev/hdd. > > > > > > > > Trying to run the Mandrake supplied backup software and specifying a tape > > > > drive of /dev/hdd doesn't work. It just says no such device. In fact, > > > > when I do a "ls -la /dev/hdd," I get a no such file message. > > > > > > I don't have one, so this is a bit of a guess, but could ide-scsi > > > emulation be involved and could the drive therefore be on scd-something? > > I don't think it's one of those... :-) > > > I ain't got one (that I use anymore anyway) so I ain't sure either , but you > > might have to mount it? or what folders do you have in /mnt ? > > Nothing related to tape. :-) I do have the mt-st package installed, and > when looking at the output of the Mandrake backup program (called from > within the Mandrake Control Center), I see lines like: > > mt -f /dev/hdd status > mt: /dev/hdd: no such file > > Even though the "Hardware" section of the MCC shows that the tape drive is > present and is /dev/hdd. There is no "hdd" link/file in /dev. Reading the > man page for MOUNTDEV (yes, all in caps) suggests that I need to use that > to create the /dev/hdd entry, but I don't know what parameters I should use > to get it to work with this kind of tape drive.
Drat. Sorry, that should be MAKEDEV, not MOUNTDEV. But yes, it's all in caps. :-) > Any ideas? > > --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key
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