I am guessing you are talking about the TR-4 drives. I have tons o trouble
with the one I have. First, it will only write the first part of a tape.
Everything after the first half is bad. It is not just mine either. A
couple friends of mine all found the same things. 

When it does work, you need to be sure you are looking at the non rewinding
tape devices, such as /dev/nst0. Writing to /dev/st0 looks like it is
working, but it is not.

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On 3/30/00 at 2:19 PM Brian Kelsay wrote:

>Has anyone gotten a HP 8GB tape drive to work under Linux.   The drive I
>have uses an IDE interface, would I need any special drivers for it or
will
>I just mount it like anything else?   I have the drive installed, but
>haven't played with it.   Under Windows 98 and NT it doesn't work (driver
>problem likely), but worked in the Windows 95 system I pulled it from.
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>I've only worked with floppy interface tape drives before.   The software
>would always recognize the drive.
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>Brian Kelsay
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Bradley Miller <bradmiller@dslonramp.com>
>To: <kclug@kclug.org>
>Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 12:15 PM
>Subject: kclug - What tape drive would you recommend?
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>> I'm looking for a tape drive to do backups on my Linux box for it and my
>> network.  What drive would you recommend?  I'm just going to be backing
>up
>> the data -- if anything blows chunks it'll get restarted from scratch.
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>> -- Bradley Miller
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