Re: Is HP Colorado 8Gb supported by Linux?

[Richard Torkar]

On 29 Jan 2001 14:33:39 +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Can anyone tell me whether there is support for the HP Colorado 8Gb (IDE 
> version) tape drive in the Linux kernel and/or user space?
> 
> If there is kernel support which of the kernel options do I have to enable 
> / where do I get user space utilities from? Any pointers?
> 
> Thanks a lot for the help in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>          Anton

I have found this forum, when it comes to tape backup and Linux, to be
very good.
http://www.mailgate.org/linux/linux.dev.tape/

Especially this one might help you if you have a problem.
http://www.mailgate.org/linux/linux.dev.tape/msg00206.html

Here is some more info I found:
"I don't have the 8 GB, but I do have the 5 GB drive working.  You need
to make sure that support for the IDE/ATAPI tape drive is compiled
into your kernel.  Once your kernel supports IDE/ATAPI tape drives,
you should be able to access your drive via /dev/ht0 or /dev/nht0
(no rewind)."

-- 

/Richard