[wplug] IDE tape drive problem

[Duncan Hutty]

That site doesn't appear to have any information for my tape drive that 
is actually pertinent to Linux, but there were a few points for similar 
models.
Specifically:

1. It needs the module sg (scsi generic) as well as ide-scsi of which I 
was not aware.
2. That stock redhat kernels have problems with the SCSI subsystem such 
that pseudo-spurious errors are always sent to the system console saying 
that the operation codes are invalid but that everything works properly 
anyway.

I'll try it out later, thanks for the tip!

Duncan Hutty
Embery, Nathan wrote:

>I deal with Seagate tape drives all day long in a solaris environment, but
>I've never touched them on linux, so this is really nothing more than a semi
>educated guess...
>
>Given that, on Solaris I had to add the following two lines to my st.conf
>file:
>
>"SEAGATE ULTRIUM06242-XXX","Seagate LTO","SEAGATE_LTO";
>SEAGATE_LTO = 1,0x36,0,0x19639,4,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,1;
>
>Again, I've never even been near this stuff on Linux, so I could be totally
>leading you in the wrong direction ;-) Esp considering st translates to
>'scsi tape'
>
>In any case, you probably need something similar on Linux. check the
>www.certance.com website for the docs and what the actual string needs to be
>and that should get you going.
>
>Nate
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