[Gllug] Re: [GLUG] Tape Device
Hendrik Visage
hvisage at envisage.co.za
Wed Mar 26 11:01:15 UTC 2003
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:37:09AM +0100, Neil Fryer wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> How do I check what dev my tape device is mapped to? As we have a new
> prebuilt box here, and I'm battling, as if I use dmesg, the only thing that
> seems likely to be the tape device is:
>
> scsi0 : cciss0
> Vendor: COMPAQ Model: SDX-400C Rev: 3.0B
> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
1) Is the st module compiled into the kernel? if not, have you
loaded it yet?
2) You have loaded/compiled in the necesary SCSI module (Just checking,
as this happened to me :()
3) Hopefully you are using devfs, in which case (given that the above two
hold), you'll be able to see it under /dev/tapes/tape0/...
mt - Magnetic tape (rewinding after close)
mtn - Magnetic tape *NON*rewinding (Needed for appending operations)
There are someothers which I don't know the exact uses for, but refer to the
st module's documentation ;^)
Hendrik
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