On 28 Jan at 14:35 Nick Brockner <nbrockne AT hamilton DOT edu> wrote in message
<479DE823.5060208 AT hamilton DOT edu>

> Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > Hi,
>> 
> > I've been using amanda for some years, but have just moved from Mandriva
> > to Debian Etch.
>> 
> > I have a Seagate STT-20000 IDE Travan tape, which is identified as nht0.
> > MT and dd correctly address this device, and I can read an Amanda tape
> > using dd.
>> 
> > However, amcheck insists that: tapedev /dev/nht0 is offline or has no
> > loaded tape. tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nht0: No such file or
> > directory
>>        (expecting tape SysDumps-04 or a new tape)
>> 
> > So clearly I've misconfigured something. I seem to have a vague memory
> > of putting "hdb=ide-scsi" in my kernel command line, and using nst0 but
> > can find no reference to that.
>> 
> > Has anyone got any suggestions please?
>> 
> > Cheers, Tony
>> 
>
> Do a
>
> #modprobe ide-scsi
>
> And see if that loads the kernel module.
>
> -Nick
>

Thanks for the suggestion, Nick; I'm not sure what you expected it to
achieve, but:
# modprobe ide-scsi
FATAL: Module ide_scsi not found.

It seems like everyone here is equally baffled :(
-- 
Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony AT vanderhoff DOT org
Buckinghamshire, England