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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7

Offline fpausp

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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« on: October 16, 2005, 07:27:49 AM »
Hi all,

Is there a howto for iomega REV35 on SME7, i found it only for 6.0.1 and 6.5 on the forum.

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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2005, 09:08:18 PM »
Hi,

Is there anybody who use the iomega revdrive on sme7 ?

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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2006, 12:14:49 PM »
bounce

It's been a while so again: has anyone tried an Iomega Rev35 drive on SME7 and got any luck?!

I'm looking on buying one for backup purposes but want to be sure it works.

Regards,
jester.

beno9487

RPM would be great
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2006, 02:06:51 AM »
Hi, Im in the same boat. Not very linux literate. However been using SME for about 8 years. I also use a Iomega Rev on my client pc. Its awesome. There are now a couple of how tos on Contribs. But look a bit overwhelming.

Rev as backup system for SME would be awesome.

hoe to
http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/How%20to%20install%20Iomega%27s%20REV35%20drive

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Re: RPM would be great
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2006, 04:40:49 PM »
Quote from: "beno9487"

Rev as backup system for SME would be awesome.


If someone were to buy such a device and lend or donate it to an active developer then there's a good chance that support would be added as a standard feature.

beno9487

How do we go about this?
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2006, 02:54:24 AM »
Hi Charlie,

I have a friend who is the Boss of Iomega in Australia. I could ask him to get the US office to send you (or someone willing) an Iomega Rev Drive (probably internal ata or external usb2) for testing and development purposes.

Would have to be very official, so Iomega would need names, contacts etc... for the release of the product.

Let me know the next step and how we can handle this request.

As mentioned before, it is an amazing backup tool.

Ben

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Re: How do we go about this?
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2006, 02:57:39 AM »
Quote from: "beno9487"

Would have to be very official, so Iomega would need names, contacts etc... for the release of the product.

Let me know the next step and how we can handle this request.


You'd have to deal with someone with an official connection with contribs.org - I don't. Send email to staff@contribs.org - or to one or more of the elected officials.

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IOMEGA REV35
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2006, 06:25:41 PM »
I use this drive on many SME Servers.
I also use the tapeware application and the two combined are excellent.
-Plug in the rev drive.
-Install Tapeware.
-Configure your backup needs.
Done
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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2006, 07:17:59 PM »
What sme version do you use, what revdrive (usb, ide, scsi ...) and is the tapeware open source ?


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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2006, 07:25:35 PM »
Quote from: "fpausp"
What sme version do you use, what revdrive (usb, ide, scsi ...) and is the tapeware open source ?
USB
6.x and recently my first 7B3.
No tapeware is not open source.
Darryl May recent backup2USB would probably work.
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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2006, 09:58:00 PM »
Hi All,

Yesterday i bought a drive (paralell atapi) ~210 Euro, i put it in my fresh installed sme7pre4 and locate it with this script:


#!/bin/bash
    #
    # Script to locate parallel ATAPI REV drives.
    #
      for DRIVE in ls /proc/ide | egrep -e "^hd[a-z]";
      do
        if [ -f /proc/ide/$DRIVE/model ];
        then
          if grep -q "Iomega RRD" /proc/ide/$DRIVE/model;
          then
            echo "/dev/$DRIVE is an Iomega REV drive."
          fi
        fi
      done

it was recognized as /dev/hdd.


I can mount it with:

mount -t udf /dev/hdd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/rev35/files


and take a backup of my ibay with:

rsync -arbuv --delete --progress /home/e-smith/files/ibays/firma/files/ /home/e-smith/files/ibays/rev35/files


it is more simple as i thought.


in /etc/fstab i can find this line:


/dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0


tomorrow i will search a cool rsync-backup-script ...



regards
fpausp
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jpib

How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2006, 05:06:23 PM »
Hi,

I myself use a USB REV drive (35GB) plugged on my DELL server.

When plugged it is recognized as a CD-ROM. Extract from /var/log/messages :

Jun 19 18:31:25 boa kernel: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using address 3
Jun 19 18:31:25 boa kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jun 19 18:31:25 boa kernel:   Vendor: Iomega    Model: RRD               Rev: 74.B
Jun 19 18:31:25 boa kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 19 18:31:25 boa kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 125x/125x caddy
Jun 19 18:31:25 boa kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 19 18:31:25 boa kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 3
Jun 19 18:31:26 boa scsi.agent[4305]: cdrom at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-3/1-3:2.0/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0
Jun 19 18:31:28 boa fstab-sync[4342]: removed mount point /media/cdrom for /dev/scd0

The last 2 lines show that the device for the CDROM /dev/scd0 is now used by the REV.

I can then :  mount  /dev/scd0  /media/rev
or even without mounting it, write directly :  tar -cvf /dev/scd0  /var/log/*

Hope this helps;
jean-pierre

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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2006, 06:50:08 PM »
Hi all,

I'm now trying out the REV35 on SME 7.0 final and it seems to work well except for the fact that fstab keps on getting changed by the HAL system.
The OS recognizes the unit as cdrom and once mounted wtih: mount /media/cdrom the unit is readable and writable.
I had to compile the udftools to be able to erase/reformat the fs.  Allthough I got an error while making mkudffs, it still seems to work ok.
I´m in need of help with the HAL subsystem. I have no experience with this and would like to integrate correct recognition of this drive into /usr/share/hal/fdi/.
Can anyone help me with this, so that fstab gets the right line placed into it: e.g /dev/hdb  /media/rev  auto  pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed,iocharset=utf-8 0 0 ?
With this in place I can proceed to update the Wiki Howto for SME 7.0
Regards

Ernesto
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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2006, 02:43:17 AM »
I have my REV35 unit up and running with SME 7.0 final.
Didn´t have to touch much, only the fdi file 95userpolicy to acomodate the units new mount point: /media/rev. I created a new file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy named "atapi-rev35-drive.fdi" with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
    <device>
        <match key="storage.model" string="Iomega RRD">
            <merge key="storage.policy.desired_mount_point" type="string">rev</merge>
        </match>
    </device>
</deviceinfo>

BTW, I'm using my REV35 with rsnapshot and have modified the backup web-panel to include a new sub-panel with the following REV functions: mount, eject and format. This panel also informs of a correctly mounted cartridge and the free space availabe.
Anyone interested in helping me with the creation of an RPM?

Regrads,

Ernesto
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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2006, 10:32:36 PM »
Hi Ernesto,

Have you done a rpm ?


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fpausp
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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2006, 02:38:09 AM »
No, not yet. Would you be interested in doing one?
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How to install Iomega's REV35 drive on SME7
« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2006, 08:50:18 AM »
Hi Ernesto,

Yes, but i do not know how. I never have done a rpm ...

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fpausp
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chrisw

rev drive
« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2006, 02:51:29 AM »
I have been using a rev drive atapi mounted in my sme server 7 final
I have been backing up to this with Darrel Mays backup2 contrib
rev drive shows up on /etc/fstab as
//dev/hdd  /media/cdrom auto pamconsole, exec, noauto, $

In the backup2 contrib it is mounted as
/media/cdrom

Works well you can mount it with
mount /media/cdrom


and delete files or add them no problems with mc or winscp

Haven't tried the new DAR backup system yet as it looks as though you would have to format each disk to ext3