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 -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk
