Re: HP-T20 SCSI Tape
Hello Ryan,
On 17-Aug-99, you wrote:
RCS> I've installed a HP-T20 into one of my linux machines and it
RCS> doesn't seem to be working correctly.
RCS>
RCS> I can see in the /proc/scsi/scsi the following, which tells me that
RCS> the drive is loaded:
RCS>
RCS> Attached devices:
RCS> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
RCS> Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B
RCS> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
RCS> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
RCS> Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B
RCS> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
RCS> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
RCS> Vendor: HP Model: T20 Rev: 3.01
RCS> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
RCS>
RCS> And when I create the block devices by running:
RCS>
RCS> mknod -m 660 /dev/st0 c 9 0
RCS> mknod -m 660 /dev/st1 c 9 1
RCS> mknod -m 660 /dev/nst0 c 9 128
RCS> mknod -m 660 /dev/nst1 c 9 129
RCS>
RCS>
RCS> It comes back with no problems. But, when I run:
RCS>
RCS> # mt -f /dev/st0 status
RCS> mt: /dev/st0: Operation not supported by device
RCS>
RCS> I've also tried st1 and nst1 and nst0. No luck.
RCS>
RCS> Or if I try to tar something to it, I get the same problem. Keep in
RCS> mind that this drive was added after the OS was installed, but
RCS> everything looks good. Kernel is 2.0.36 running on Debian 2.0.
RCS>
RCS> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
RCS>
RCS>
RCS> Ryan C. Sumner
RCS> Director of Technology
RCS> LIS Consulting, LLC
RCS>
RCS>
I've no direct experience of SCSI tapes on linux but I re-installed a
couple of days ago (I'm a newbie trying to figure stuff out so it's a
scratch system) and I'm sure I saw a module that could be included that
was specifically for SCSI tapes. I've got the impression from other
postings that it's, possible (and I would expect it to be so) to add
these modules without needing to re-install. I haven't got that far yet
so I can't help much further (assuming that this helps anyway).
Regards,
LeeE
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