Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Knoppix, latest distribution is what I am using.

I have a DDS2 tape drive. Recognised in Windows, etc.

Cannot see it in UX/Lux.

Normally, Knoppix is excellent for picking up devices - but it just will not
see the tape drive.

Help please!

Thanks,

JJ

Hey there,
What kind of tape device is it? SCSI, IDE, external USB etc...

I've had similar problem with a DDS3 drive on a DGUX Aviion server, BIOS see's the drive fine... the OS needed a bit of config to get it to see it.

Whats your knowledge of recompiling the kernel like?
I'm not 100% sure but I don't think knoppix has support for tape drive in the default kernel. Best thing to do would be to download the kernel source (for your current kernel version) then look in the kernel source directory and do a 'make menuconfig' go through the filesystem and device setting options and turn all options on for removable tape device.

Once the drive is setup it is relatively simple to restore data from tape to hard drive and then to DVD. Depending on how the data was backed up to the tape.
If you have used a windows utility to backup data to the tape (e.g. Veritas Backup Exec, Arcserve etc) you may need a linux counterpart that can read that kind of backup.

Normally Unix & Linux backups are passed through tar & the same for when restoring.

Hope this helps some.