[Gllug] Tape drive

[Adrian McMenamin]

Not sure how to do this because I am not sure what are the right things
to ask google (the obvious stuff like "how do I detect my DDS2 drive in
linux" and similar variants don't seem to work). So here goes...

Have an ancient hunk of iron which is a very noisy dual pentium 2/333
box of little use. But it does have a HP SCSI DDS2 tape drive that I'd
like to play with.

I have now installed ubuntu on this thing and it doesn't seem to
acknowledge the existence of the two devices on the second scsi card (ie
the cdrom and the tape drive) though the hard disks - all on scsi0 are
seen.

Of course I installed ubuntu from the cdrom and tape drive certainly
seems alive when I put a tape in.

How do I detect/configure these things. What should I look for...

For info
root at noisybox:/dev# dmesg | grep scsi
[    1.187498] scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev
6.2.36
[   16.210710] scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 8
[   16.217512] (scsi0:A:0): 6.600MB/s transfers (16bit)
[   16.222385] (scsi0:A:0): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8,
16bit)
[   16.242089] scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 8
[   16.248718] (scsi0:A:1): 6.600MB/s transfers (16bit)
[   16.253529] (scsi0:A:1): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8,
16bit)
[   16.267631] scsi0:A:2:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 8
[   16.281363] (scsi0:A:2): 6.600MB/s transfers (16bit)
[   16.291525] (scsi0:A:2): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8,
16bit)
[   16.306399] scsi0:A:3:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 8
[   16.308917] (scsi0:A:3): 6.600MB/s transfers (16bit)
[   16.312281] (scsi0:A:3): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8,
16bit)
[   18.997288] scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev
6.2.36
[   35.089011] (scsi1:A:4): 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
[   35.121367] (scsi1:A:5): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
[   38.613750]  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
[   38.638280] Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[   38.648998]  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
[   38.672669] Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
[   38.870293]  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0: p1
[   38.875308] Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
[   38.880020]  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0: p1
[   38.880928] Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0



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