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Re: scsi tape



Hello,

It seems your SCSI tape module loads fine but you have not loaded any module for your SCSI controller. Thus the tapedrive cannot be seen.

What kind of SCSI controller do you have? lspci might tell you what controller it is and then you can load the appropriate module.
When that is done try to insert a tape and then type `eject /dev/st0'.

If that works you can use your tapedrive. Use tar, cpio, taper, mt or whatever to make your backups (see the appropriate manpages for info on how to use them).
Personally I prefer tar.

Greetings,
	Jens


Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
Hello,
I have 'modprobe st' (this is what I didn't know).  Now I
have /dev/scsi.  However, 'lsmod|grep st
st                     40996  0
scsi_mod              129696  1 st'and 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:'.

So, it may be installed but not working.  How do I fix?
Thanks,
Gavin.



On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 20:03 +0200, Jens Vogel wrote:

Hello,

Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:

There is no /dev/scsi.

Not /dev/scsi but /proc/scsi/scsi
E.g.:

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: HP35470A         Rev: T503
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02


And, I cannot see any scsi related info. by dmesg.

You need to load the module "st" (as stated earlier), e.g. with modconf.

# lsmod|grep st
st                     28888   0  (autoclean)
scsi_mod               94596   4  [st sg ide-scsi aic7xxx]

As you can see, also the appropriate module for your SCSI controller needs to be loaded.


By st driver, do you mean mt-st?

No, the kernelmodule "st". Try `modprobe st'.

HTH,
	Jens



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