An IDE tape is /dev/ht0 and /dev/nht0 (NOT hd*)
Now all you have to do is figure out how to tell 'dump' how long your tape
is
(for a default block size of 10KB use '-B 8000000' option)
----- Original Message -----
From: Luis Luna ">Luis@btr-architects.com>
> Has anybody got the HP Colorado (Travan) 8 gig Internal (ide, on
/dev/hdd1)
> Tape drive to work? I called and talked to HP support, they just told me
> that they could not support ide on linux and I was on my own. They only
will
> help with scsi tape drives. I am running Caldera 2.3 OpenLinux, I
installed
> the BRU personal edition and I can't seem to get to work. First of all,
what
> do I do to make linux know that the tape is on /dev/hdd1? What config file
> do I edit? I tried to look at the linuxnewbie.org website, but no luck.
> Thanks in advance! I just want to schedule a daily full backup and verify
of
> 5 gigs of data.
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