On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:17:10PM +0100, Gabe Granger wrote: > I have a Onstream SCSI backup drive attached to a Adaptec AIC7XXX > card. I'm having problems access the device as I'm now really sure > what I should be doing, I've done some hunting around the Net but > haven't as yet found anything that has helped. > > on boot up i see this > > scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 > <Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20C/30C SCSI adapter> > aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs > > (scsi0:A:4): 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 7) > Vendor: OnStream Model: SC-50 Rev: 1.09 > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 > st: Found incompatible tape at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 > st: The suggested driver is osst. > > I can load the module for osst, but there is no /dev/osstx. I've > tried running MAKEDEV -n -v update but get the following > > /sbin/MAKEDEV: don't know what "osst" is > > I'm at a real loss, any / all help trying to get this thing working > would be great. I'm using Debian 3.1 on kernel-image 2.6.8-2. > > All I'm really wanted to do is use it to backup my Maildir folders. >
>From devices.txt (distributed with the Kernel sources), /dev/osst0 is a character device with major 206 and minor 0. There are other devices for other modes: /dev/osst0l : c 206 32 /dev/osst0m : c 206 64 /dev/osst0a : c 206 96 /dev/nosst0 : c 206 128 /dev/nosst0l : c 206 160 /dev/nosst0m : c 206 192 /dev/nosst0a : c 206 224 I own a DAT tape drive which uses the standard st driver, the meaning of the different modes is configured in /etc/stinit.def from the mt-st package. Philippe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
