Re: asking for help with getting the tape drive to work
Aaron:
Your command line should be something like:
>mt -f /dev/ht0 status
to get the drive status (assuming 'ht0' is the device, and a tape is
loaded). If you set environment variable TAPE to /dev/ht0 (as per
>export TAPE=/dev/ht0
then the following will work:
>mt status
as will all other commands listed in the 'mt' man page.
Regards,
Dean
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> greetings,
>
> before upgrading the kernel i went for the first time to use my tape
> drive to back up my box. the dmesg output contained these lines:
>
>
> hdd: Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive
> ...
> ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 2600kB
> pipeline, 190ms tDSC
>
> but neither dump nor mt recognise it:
>
> mortirolo:/# mt /dev/ht0
> mt: invalid tape operation `/dev/ht0'
> mortirolo:/# mt /dev/hdd
> mt: invalid tape operation `/dev/hdd'
> mortirolo:/#
>
> can somebody lend a helping hand explaining what is wrong and how to fix
> it?
>
> for some reason i was convinced that i had a scsi tape drive, so i
> loaded the st module but got similar response:
>
> mortirolo:/# mt /dev/st0
> mt: invalid tape operation `/dev/st0'
>
> i also noticed the following line in demesg's output:
>
> Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
>
> does it have something to do with my tape troubles? tia,
>
> -a
>
>
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