On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 19:24, David Guntner wrote: > I hope someone can help me with this... :-) > > 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. > > What do I have to do to create the appropriate link at this point to make > things work? I suspect that MAKEDEV is involved, but I'm not sure what > parameters should be used and so on. > > Any help would be appreciated! > > --Dave > -- > David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! > http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server > for PGP Public key 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?
HTHBIPW (hope this helps but it probably won't) Brian
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