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  From: bmonten <bmonten@adelaide.on.net>
  To  : LinuxSA (E-mail) <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:49:15 +1030

Help with IDE Travan tape drive

Hi,
    I'm trying to load a Travan TapeStor 8gB (ATAPI) on RH5.2. The drive is
detected at boot time, and assigned to /dev/hdb. I pointed /dev/tape to it,
but mt status still gives errors.

    The boot comes up with:
    hdb Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive, DMA
    ide at 0x1f0-0x3f6 on irq 14

    the 'mt status' comes up with
    ide-tape: hdb: I/O error, pc=1, key=2, asc=3a, ascq=0
    ide-tape: Rewinding tape failed
    /dev/tape: Input/output error

    Interestingly, when I ran the Travan utilities on it, it expected the
drive to have an IRQ of 15, which is the video. The drive's actually 14.
When I attached the drive to secondary master instead of primary slave
(changing the jumpers on the drive to reflect this), the boot process came
up with "ide controller" at irq 14. The machine has on-board IDE.

    Any suggestions ?



Brett Monten