Trouble with ide tape drive 1

[markcasazza]

I have 2 IDE hard drives (both masters - primary and secondary controllers- in a RAID 1 array) and a IDE tape drive as a slave on the secondary controller. I'm running Debian kernel Linux version 2.6.8-2-686. kern.log shows:

Sep 26 15:38:56 fs kernel: ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: CONNER CTT8000-A rev 2.08
Sep 26 15:38:56 fs kernel: ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 5850kB pipeline, 88ms tDSC

Yet no devices exist (ht0, st0, hdd, etc.)

There was a CD drive in this location (secondary slave) when the system was built. Could this be "stuck" somehow and preventing the device from being created?

TIA

Mark C

 

[TonyGroves]

You might need to use a different driver. Try removing the ide-tape module ("rmmod ide-tape") and loading the ide-scsi module ("modprobe ide-scsi"). Then you can test it using something like "mt -f /dev/st0 retension