Re: problem with ide-scsi and IDE tape drive

Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@redhat.com)
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:48:59 -0500


> > I have a Seagate STT20000A IDE tape drive, which I am trying to use

> Does your drive only accept writes from the beginning of the tape

> Kai

I thought that was the property of helical technologies such
as DAT and 8mm. STT20000 must be QIC which ought to work,
that's why I did not bring it up. I saw the Illegal Request too.

Historically ide-scsi worked better with tapes than ide-tape,
so I am puzzled why it fails that way.

-- Pete
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