Re: ide-tape Problems.
James Kosin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.tape |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stuart D. Gathman wrote: |On Wed, 25 May 2005, James Kosin wrote: | |>I'm having problems with the ide-tape module in the 2.4.30 kernel. | | |I have been unable to get ide-tape to work in 2.4 kernels. |Using ide-scsi instead, and then using the /dev/st? device |works well, however. IMHO, since IDE tape drives are actually |SCSI drives with an alternate physical layer, ide-tape should |be dropped altogether, and tapes supported via the SCSI emulation. | I'm broken on both ide-scsi and ide-tape. I think this may be a problem with the ide.c module more than the ide-tape or ide-scsi modules. But, I'm trying to understand the problem and come up with a fix. If not just for me... then for all those out there who may need ide-tape support. James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFClL32kNLDmnu1kSkRAoKCAKCC+dT89Abp/QCUbScq1bcwIfpt0QCdE2k6 oYgZs7TiSOAQ29PCTCyCXR8= =B4J7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tape" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html