Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 14:42 +0200, Vitor Garcia wrote: > Any ideas? Yes, provide us with the full outputs of dmesg and lspci. We can't do much with some random greps.

Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-24 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:44:10 -0500 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > unfortunately you can only do /boot on btrfs if you use a single disk > due to bootloader limitations: Thank you for clarification...I was not really understanding the limitation. > swap has been disabled in btrfs because it will co

Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Michal Soltys
On 11-08-24 08:49, Vitor Garcia wrote: Good morning. I have been trying to my Dell LTO-120 SCSI Tape Drive on Arch without success. I have tried to run $ modprobe st, but still, I have no /dev/st0 and neither /dev/nst0. dmesg | grep -i tape shows nothing too. Is there anything I'm missing here

Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 24.08.2011 14:42, schrieb Vitor Garcia: > As the device is conected to a sata port, I have tried: > > dmesg | grep -i sata > > ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 310) > ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps > (The 2 above lines repeats hundreds of times) > > > But I'm not sure it

Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Vitor Garcia wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:53:47 +0200 > Tom Gundersen wrote: > > Thanks very much for the tips, but I haven't found my device on /sys Can you see your device in lspci? That's usually a good startingpoint. Then I'd use the "tree /sys | less" to

Re: [arch-general] btrfs & Arch

2011-08-24 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:25:52 -0500 > C Anthony Risinger wrote: > >> ... tbh, unless you want to get a feel for it, are ready to >> troubleshoot, or have a specific use-case -- and have some other >> backup systems in place -- you'll p

Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Vitor Garcia
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:51:16 +0200 Jan de Groot wrote: > Please paste your dmesg output somewhere. The SCSI controller that > connects the drive is probably not even recognized. dmesg | grep -i tape shows nothing dmesg | grep -i scsi shows nothing too. As the device is conected to a sata por

Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Vitor Garcia
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:53:47 +0200 Tom Gundersen wrote: Thanks very much for the tips, but I haven't found my device on /sys > To get a better idea of what is happening, check `dmesg` for any > messages regarding your tape-drive. You could also do `rmmod st && > modprobe -v st` and check the ou

Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 08:49 +0200, Vitor Garcia wrote: > Good morning. > > I have been trying to my Dell LTO-120 SCSI Tape Drive on Arch without > success. > > I have tried to run $ modprobe st, but still, I have no /dev/st0 and > neither /dev/nst0. dmesg | grep -i tape shows nothing too. > > Is

Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 20:11 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Vitor Garcia > wrote: > > Good morning. > > > > I have been trying to my Dell LTO-120 SCSI Tape Drive on Arch without > > success. > > > > I have tried to run $ modprobe st, but still, I have no /dev/st0

Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Vitor Garcia wrote: > Good morning. > > I have been trying to my Dell LTO-120 SCSI Tape Drive on Arch without > success. > > I have tried to run $ modprobe st, but still, I have no /dev/st0 and > neither /dev/nst0. dmesg | grep -i tape shows nothing too. > > Is th

Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Vitor Garcia wrote: > I have been trying to my Dell LTO-120 SCSI Tape Drive on Arch without > success. > > I have tried to run $ modprobe st, but still, I have no /dev/st0 and > neither /dev/nst0. dmesg | grep -i tape shows nothing too. > > Is there anything I'm mi

[arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Vitor Garcia
Good morning. I have been trying to my Dell LTO-120 SCSI Tape Drive on Arch without success. I have tried to run $ modprobe st, but still, I have no /dev/st0 and neither /dev/nst0. dmesg | grep -i tape shows nothing too. Is there anything I'm missing here? Dell's user manual says that the drive