Bugzilla Bug 22854

Hello, all. I'm wrestling with my cheap-o Seagate IDE/ATAPI TR-5 10/20GB tape
drive (model ST220000A-RFT). While doing so, I've tried using both the ide-tape
and ide-scsi kernel modules. While I've given up on using ide-tape (which seems
to have come a long way over the years), ide-scsi is now where I'm working. But,
the mt-st tools ebuild seems to be missing some critical pieces. For one thing,
there is no "st". The man pages refer to it. There is onlt "stinit". stinit,
however, fails with "Can't find the tape characteristics database." (yes, I'm
root as I do this). The qpkg -l mt-st returns:

homeserver root # qpkg -l mt-st
app-arch/mt-st-0.7 *
CONTENTS:
/usr
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/mt
/usr/sbin/stinit
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/mt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/stinit.8.gz

Is this as it is expected?

(and, as an aside, I have yet to hear of anyone who has made this drive work
_well_ with Linux - if you have, I'd love to hear about it, and I'll post the
solution with good docs...)

homeserver root # emerge --info
Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) MP 1600+
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gg3.net/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/data5/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline svga java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk motif opengl acpi alsa -arts bonobo cdr dga doc dvb ethereal evo fbcon gb gd gtk2 gtkhtml jikes -kde lcms ldap maildir mozilla mysql pda perl pnp -qt ruby samba scanner snmp tiff usb Xaw3d xml"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

no theres no programs missing.

theres a couple of README files that arent installed, I'll add them
when I get time.

why dont you unpack the tarball and look for yourself?

OK, Donny. I looked. Could you add the following missing files to the ebuild:

* README
* README.stinit
* stinit.def.examples

Thanks!

ok.