Re: ATAPI Tape Driver Failure in Kernel 2.4.4, More

Ed Tomlinson
2001-05-10T20:48:35Z

Mike Dresser wrote:

> Mark Bratcher wrote:
>
>>
>> This all works OK in kernel 2.2.17. But it fails in 2.4.4.
>> > hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
>
> I did my own playing with 2.4.x on the 14gb model of this tape drive, all i've managed
> to do is be able to write to the tape, but not read from it. Even in 2.2.x, putting the
> IDE patches in, breaks it. Apparently the HP's aren't completely ATAPI compatible

I can write my HP 20GB drive with ide-tape. For restores I use ide-scsi. Its a bit of a
hack but does work around the problem.

Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>