I think I had to make sure mt-st was installed (maybe taper too, can't
remember).
Michelle
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Michelle,
> thank you for your e-mail. I'd appreciate it if you could advise me as to how
> you went about invoking those commands. I tried using them under the bash
> shell, but only received error messages saying those commands could not be
> found.
>
> John
>
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > I was having similar problems. I needed to do the following:
> >
> > insmod ftape
> > insmod zftape
> >
> > in that order before anything would work
> >
> > Michelle
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > I have set up my PC (a Gateway G6-233) as a dual boot systen. I am able to
> > > boot into Windows 95 and Linux Mandrake 7.0 without any problems. I have a
> > > Seagate tape drive which works perfectly well under Windows. When I boot into
> > > Linux the operating system seems to recognise its presence and call it hdd.
> > > However, when I attempt to run the tape backup software I keep getting the
> > > message "Tape not in drive". What do I need to do to resolve this?
> > >
> > > Thanking you in advance for your assistance.
> > >
> > > Yours faithfully,
> > >
> > > John Wallis
> > > -------------------------------------------------------
