Re: Tape Drive With Linux.

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Matthew Stanfield wrote:

> I need to configure ide-scsi scsi emulation under Block devices. I found a
> web page with instructions on how to do this, the URL is here if anyone's
> interested:
>
> http://www.lmphotonics.com/linux.htm
>
> It says to add the line (append="hdd=ide-scsi") -my brackets- to my
> /etc/lilo.conf file, my tape drive is indeed on hdd or so it says when
> booting Linux. The problem is, I have no /etc/lilo.conf file only a
> /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda file. Should I put the same line in
> lilo.conf.anaconda instead? (There is no lilo.conf file anywhere on my
> filesystem although there is a man page for it.)

Hmm.. I never had to do that, so I'm not sure.  Mine just show up as the
scsi device, the IDE layer doesn't seem to intercept it, which is good.

> The web page then says to run lilo (which I don't know how to do, but guess
> a re-boot would be ok instead) and then to add this line (modprobe
> ide-scsi) to the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local --this file I do have.

It'd be /sbin/lilo  to run lilo.

> Finally it says that the tape drive will appear as /dev/nst0 after a reboot
> and suggests creating a link to /dev/tape which I don't know how to do but,
> it claims, may be necessary for some software.

ln -s /dev/nst0 /dev/tape
or ln -s /dev/st0 /dev/tape

depending on your needs(non-rewinding after write, or rewinding)

> Does this all sound correct to you? I am hesitant to change system settings
> when I have no idea whether this will blow my machine up, so to speak.

It sounds correct, I just didn't have to do all that.

Mike

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