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HP Colorado T3000 tape drive in Debian?Has anyone used a HP Colorado T3000 tape drive in Debian? A friend of mine runs a small office & some so-called "technician" installed a DVD-R/RW drive but removed the T3000 without asking. It now needs re-installing & setting up again. The machine in question runs Win98. However, there is another PC in the office that is spare & my friend is interested in the concept of Free Software & Linux. If I can say to her that I could install Debian on this spare PC & have it back-up the other computers in the office on the tape drive, she may agree, just to see what it does & what it looks like. So, if anyone has used these tape drives in Debian, then I would be very interested to hear of your experience, what needs to be done, etc. TIA Gavin. Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Re: HP Colorado T3000 tape drive in Debian?
Some time ago I tried installing a 10/20GB Colorado drive under Debian Sarge but I had no luck (the same drive does work under W*****s). However, a Seagate Travan IDE tape drive, which uses the same tapes, works a treat. I think it was just a question of installing the drive, and doing "rmmod ide-tape" and "modprobe ide-scsi" to install the driver. The drive is then attached to /dev/st0 (could be a different device on your system), so you can test it using something like "mt -f /dev/st0 retension"
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