ide tape drive that thinks its a hard drive

["Bob Castleberry" <bobkat79@piasanet.com>]

hello, i've got a bit of a problem and after hours of searching the web and
talking to friends it was suggested that i post to this list that i read
every day, so heres the problem.
 i've got a
athalon 700
two 9gig cheatah 160 lvd drives
two adaptec 29160 scsi cards
currently 8 gig wd ide hdd
and most importantly a seagate tapestor 20gb ide tape backup drive
now i'm running suse with the 2.3.99 pre8 kernel (so i can do bootable
duplexed raid 1 with the scsi drives) and this comes standard with the
ide-tape 1.16f built into it, and the option has been checked when i
compiled the kernel (i double checked by checking /proc/ide/drivers)
what happens is the kernel see's the tape drive and knows what it is, but it
then sets the tape drive as /dev/hdc (all of the info in
/proc/ide/ide1/hdc/* shows the tape drive information) but programs like
taper dump, amanda, etc. wont use /dev/hdc because it thinks that it's a
block device and not a character device (please correct me if i'm wrong), so
does anyone know how i could force the kernel to make the tape drive
/dev/ht0?  any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bobby Castleberry, aka Bob the Kat


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