Re: Can't open tapedev
2008-01-28 13:25:18
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Nick Brockner <nbrockne AT hamilton DOT edu> writes:
> Do a
>
> #modprobe ide-scsi
>
> And see if that loads the kernel module.
>
> -Nick
>
> 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
>>
>
>
>
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