setting up a powervault112T tape drive

dozer · 10-08-2007, 06:49 PM

Hi,

I'm having problems setting up a powervault 112T tape drive on a Poweredge 860 server running CentOS5.

When I reboot the linux machine, it doesn't auto detect the tape drive. The tape drive doesn't show up under /proc/scsi/scsi

So what do i need to do to detect the drive?
I suspect i'm missing a module.

my /etc/modprob.conf file contains the following
alias eth0 tg3
alias eth1 tg3
alias scsi_hostadpater ata_piix
alias scsi_hostadpater1 usb-storage

What do I need to do to get it to work?

Thanks
Darrell

jeenam · 10-09-2007, 11:54 AM

Are you sure the tape drive is detected by the controller when the system boots?

What ID is the tape drive set to? Try setting the ID to 0.

Which SCSI controller are you using? Does the module for the SCSI controller load at boot? Look at the output of 'dmesg'. IIRC, tape drives show up as /dev/mtX devices.

dozer · 10-09-2007, 03:05 PM

I fixed the problems, it had nothing to do with the server, I just had to put the tape drive through a power cycle by holding the on button for 10 second.

Then I booted up the server and the tape drive and it detected it.