Tape drive not listed in /dev/

Hello, I'm attempting to get a SCSI Sony SDT-9000 tapedrive setup. It's been on the machine, but hasn't been used recently. I want to use it, but i noticed there was no "/dev/st0" or anything like that. We ran modconfig and added the st module and it detected in the messages file. Why isn't there

RE: SCSI bus reset when burning

I have this same type of problem when I try to use SCSI tape backup. I get simular error messages and the machine's load goes pretty high and sometimes needs to be rebooted. I have had no luck getting the tape backup to work. this is the error i get: -- May 3 14:23:23 taz kernel: SCSI host 0 abo

Tape Backup Problem

Hi All, I've been trying to get tape backup working on a server and almost everytime I attempt to backup files to the tape drive the machine goes crazy. The load goes sky high (way over 100.00) and it stops responding to everything. Maybe someone out there has some insight on the problem. Specs: