how do you mount a tape drive in linux

[jlaverdiere]

I have been unable to mount my ide tape drive on my linus redhat 7.1 system.. any ideas
thank you in advance for your help

 

[GoldenEternity]

Do you have support for it built into the kernel?

 

[jlaverdiere]

yes I have even done this before so I kow that I have support in the kernel. Its frustating to have done something before and not be able to do it again

 

[mbr]

Hi,

can you please give us some hints on what you are trying and what the results have been?

mbr

 

[abovebrd]

I thought I had read somewhere that ide tape drives (such as travan drives)do not interface directly into the kernal.
Something else is needed

I believe it was called ctape

http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/pdp/castor/doc/public/Ctape/

-Danny

 

[jlaverdiere]

well I have tried several command such as mount /dev/ht0 /mnt/tape and get these types of errors. OSmount: /dev/ht0 is not a block device I do remmeber that is was pretty easy and that I could do it from the command line. Now im trying to do it again on the same machine with the same and Im not able to mount the tape drive. Anybody ever done this before??

 

[abovebrd]

what type of tape drive ?

-Danny

 

[jlaverdiere]

its a seagate taravan .. still no luck.. has any one ever mounted an ide tape drive on redhat before..

 

[abovebrd]

I should have indicated ftape above not ctape.

I think ftape is what you need.

-Danny

 

[jlaverdiere]

Solved it .. ftape is not needed and is for tapes that sit on the floppy controller. The ide tape if it seen by the os is ready to use with your favorite archiving program. The only thing I had to do is use the correct device name ( in this case /dev/ht0) Took awhile but now ai know why it was so easy.. you dont have to mount the tape li eyou do with conventional drivesa dn their is no drivers to install ( like in windows ) . thanks for all your efforts

 

[abovebrd]

The current version of ftape also suports ide based drives

So basically you where calling the wrong device name ?



-Danny

 

[m1bzm]

Just for info - I use a Colorado 14GB running Taper. No mounting or nothing, just run the software and it autodetects the drive. No problems

 

[krischrist]

Dear jlaverdiere,
I can tell you to do that in RedHat6.2, may be
the same works in RedHat7.1.
try
mt -f/dev/rft0 rewind

I am sure this is not to mount the tape drive.

Krischrist