The tape drive is correctly detected in Hardware Browser and has card:
Symbios Logic (SYM53C875)
Device:
Compaq SDT-10000 1.16 on Channel A Dev 4
Cheers,
Aly.
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:33, Aly Dharshi wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Thanks for the information, Hardware Browser lists it as /dev/st I have
> tried to get the status of the drive by issuing:
>
> mt -f /dev/st0 status
>
> and I get:
>
> /dev/st0: No such device or address
>
> Similar for nst0, st1, nst1. Please advise. Any help would be great and
> much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aly.
>
> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:28, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> > How do you all do bare metal backup and restores? Anyone ever get a
> > tape drive recognized while booted in recovery mode? Did you notice the
> > "st" device isn't installed when booted in recovery mode? "Modprobe st"
> > and "mknod /dev/st c 9 0" don't seem to work in recovery mode. I've
> > tried several "restoration" versions of Linux but none seem to work on
> > my Dell 2650 system with Redhat. Tell me I don't have to install the OS
> > to restore the OS. Can you restore / safely while booted on it?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Doug P
> >
> > Jason Dixon wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 16:48, Aly Dharshi wrote:
> > >
> > >>Hello Folks,
> > >>
> > >> I have just put in a scsi card with a Compaq 20/40GB DAT tape drive,
> > >>what would be the device id or device name for this tape drive ?
> > >
> > >
> > > If it's a rewinding tape (likely), it should be /dev/st0. If it's
> > > non-rewinding (unlikely), it would be /dev/nst0.
> > >
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>
>
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