On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 05:31:00PM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> I am trying to hook up an IDE tape drive.  It is being recognized by
> the kernel as Unknown.
> 
> uk0 at atapibus0 drive 1: <Seagate STT20000A, , 8.43> type 1 sequential removable
> uk0: unknown device
> uk0: 32-bits data port
> uk0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
> 
> There is no tape device in the config file for IDE like the st device
> for SCSI.  I tried using /dev/uk0 but it said that it does not support
> write on that device.  Do I need to add something to the config that
> isn't in the GENERIC one?  Is there some other magic I need to know
> about or doesn't NetBSD support IDE tape drives.  I didn't see it
> mentioned on the web pages (let me know if it should be and I'll do
> the update) but it also doesn't mention SCSI tape drives specifically
> and I know they work.

There is no driver for IDE tape drives yet. It should't be hard to add a
st_atapi dront end to st.c, but I have no time to look into this
rigth now.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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