Hmm interesting, it's a seagate travan tapestor. I don't know what else I would 
try
besides generic.

Thanks, I'll give the module a try


On 28 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Deon George wrote:

> Have a look at the module "ide-scsi" - it makes IDE devices look like SCSI
> devices.
>
> After loading ide-scsi - if you see the tape drive in /proc/scsi/scsi -
> then TSM will be able to see it - but remember, TSM on Linux doesnt
> support "GENERIC TAPE" - so if tsmscsi doesnt recognise the drive (from
> the drive ID string), then you probably wont be able to use it.
>
> I'd be interested to know how you go...
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> Hello all,
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> I'm trying to use a seagate IDE tape drive on linux, linux recognized it
> as /dev/hdf and it
> works but tsm's driver seems to be only for scsi drives.
> If I use /dev/hdf in the device path command TSM cannot access it and
> gives me an I/O
> error.
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> Thanks for any help