I don't know about using an IDE tape drive, but to 'remove' a partition only
takes editing the drive's lines /etc/fstab out.
Glen
On Friday 04 May 2001 20:14, you wrote:
> Two questions.
> 1) I recently had a old hard drive fail (a slave on the secondary ide
> channel) that I was only using to learn how to add a w95-fat32 disk, give
> it a mount point and share it via samba. No problem there. However, the
> drive failed. When I removed it. My Linux box would not boot normally,
> but rather to a repair mode. I had to dig out of box a another old disk,
> configure and format a partition. I was unable to configure linux properly
> after the removal of the hard drive. How does one configure linux to
> remove a drive.
> /dev/hda - HD, Master on primary channel
> /dev/hdb - CD, slave on primary channel
> /dev/hdc - Tape, Master on secondary channel
> /dev/hdd - HD, slave on secondary channel
>
> 2) I can't seem to utilize this IDE tape drive. What's the process for
> mounting and writing to an IDE tape.
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