Tony van der Hoff wrote:

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 :(