Bill Jonas on Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:06:15 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Good Tape Backup Software?


On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:03:42PM -0400, Jason Wertz wrote:
> I think it only works with SCSI drives but I was wondering if there is
> a way to make an IDE tapedrive look like a SCSI drive to the
> system...pretty much the same thing that needs to be done to use
> cdrecord with an IDE CD-R. I'm not sure if this can be done or if
> anyone is even working on it but I am curious now that you mention it.

Hmm, I never thought of it, but now that you mention it...

The kernel's configuration help says, "This will provide SCSI host
adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices, and will allow you to use a
SCSI device driver instead of a native ATAPI driver."  So, what I'd do,
is try loading the ide-scsi module, then SCSI support and the SCSI tape
modules.  If that doesn't work (say you have the tape drive support
built into the kernel instead of as modules), try rebooting with
something like "st0=ide-scsi" (or the proper device name) on the kernel
command-line (i.e., LILO's append= line or simply on the proper line in
GRUB).

I hope someone tries this and lets us know what happened. :)

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