[Gllug] Tape Device

[Tethys]

Neil Fryer writes:

>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
>
>Can anyone confirm this?

Yep, the "Sequential-Access" type gives it away as a tape drive. If it's
the first (only?) tape drive on your system, it'll probably be /dev/st0.

Tet

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