How do I get off this list?

Tony van der Hoff <tony AT vanderhoff DOT org> writes:

> 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 
>
>
>

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