You don't have to mount an IDE tape drive. As long as your system recognizes the tape drive you can just run "taper -T ide". Seve -----Original Message----- From: Don Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:24 PM Subject: [newbie] How do I mount an IDE Tape drive? > >Hi All, > >I am running Mandrake Air 7.0 on an AMD 233 Mhz system using >96 megs of ram. The install went well, and it saw all my DOS >partitions for Windoze and listed them on the desktop, along >with the floppy and CDROM drives. > >However, there is no entry in fstab for my IDE-ATAPI AIWA tape >drive. > >Lothar minimally sees it as /dev/hdd (2nd device on the secondary >IDE channel). I've tried manually installing it through linuxconf applet >but I'm either not doing it right, or don't have all the params >correct. I can't get Linux to recognize or initialize the drive. > >Any help on this would be appreciated. It's my intent to use the >tape drive for backups. The drive works flawlessly on the Windoze >side. > >Regards, > >Don > > >--- > >"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson > >
