Hi there,

my company just bought an used IBM Magstar 3590
tape drive. We want to attach it to a Linux box
and installed a Adaptec AHA2944UW SCSI card in
the PC. The card works fine and the tape drive
is recognized by the PC.

I've tested SUSE 7.0/8.0 (it's our usual OS)
and RedHat 7.2. Access to the tape isn't
possible with for example tar command.
mt -f /dev/st0 status works fine. RedHat
promises to support this type of tape drive
(http://www.redhat.com/about/presscen...ress_hess.html)

Does anybody have experience in setting up stinit.def
for the mt-st package??? I am also interested
in running a DLT1 but that isn't that urgent.

Thanks in advance

ggg