Re: tape drive
dpk wrote:
>I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support,
>and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg:
>
> Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618
> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01
>
>however, a device is not assigned to the drive. How do I tell which
>device it is? I looked at the SCSI HOWTO and it didn't say much
>about them except for that exabyte tape drives are supported. I also
>tried a few of the defaults without success.
Since it appears in dmesg, the SCSI drivers are recognising it. If no
device is assigned, the most likely cause is that you haven't got SCSI
tape support in the kernel. If it's the only tape, it ought to be /dev/st0.
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