[flexbackup-help] Help with IDE tape drive

[Toby D. <to...@so...>]

Hi all-

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I am a Linux newbie, so please forgive my ignorance.  I have an i586 box
running SuSE Linux 9.0 and it has a Seagate STT3401A IDE tape drive.  I
tried using tar, and I got I/O errors, and after fishing around on =
Google I
found out that the ide-tape module doesn't work, but the ide-scsi does.  =
Ok,
installed that (did rmmod and modprobe) and now I can tar to/from the =
tape
drive.  I can also run Taper, but I don't much like the interface, and =
for
some reason I can't get Taper to execute via cron.  I'd rather use
flexbackup anyway, because it seems cleaner/better.  However.

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Now that I have the ide-scsi module installed, flexbackup tries to do a =
mt
-f /dev/nst0 setblk and defblksize and gets an I/O error and fails.  =
This
happens even if I do flexbackup -test-tape-drive.  Presumably because my
tape drive isn't really a SCSI drive. ? =20

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I read the flexbackup FAQ and tried setting $mt{'setblk'} =3D '' or
$mt{'setblk'} =3D 'nop' but it doesn't make any difference, I still get =
the
error. I tried the -ignore-errors switch but it still failed.

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Has anyone out there been able to use and IDE tape drive with =
flexbackup?
I'd greatly appreciate any help.

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Next time, I'm buying a SCSI tape drive!

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Thanks,

Toby