IDE tape drive under Linux -- can it really be this simple?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

I've got the STT20000A and it comes up on /dev/ht0.  Works great
for me :)

-derek

"Seth Gordon" <sethg at ropine.com> writes:

> PCs for Everyone is selling a Seagate TapeStor, model STT22000A-RFT,
> and labels it as "Linux-OK".  This is an IDE drive that uses Travan
> tapes.  I have recompiled my kernel to support IDE tape drives (I'm
> pretty sure that was one of the zillion xconfig buttons I saw... :-).
> 
> If I install this drive in my computer, and set a symlink from
> /dev/st0 to whatever name the kernel assigns it (probably /dev/hdd),
> will dump(8) and restore(8) just work?  Is there some other program I
> need to install, or some other document beyond those two man pages
> that I need to study?
> 
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