device path
 

In my RH system that have a external tape device attached , I use dmesg could find it , but I the path st0 , sg0 is not present in my system , can advise what is its device path ( eg. /dev/??? )


#dmesg |grep tape
Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0


#ls /dev/st0
ls: /dev/st0: No such file or directory

ls /dev/sg0
ls: /dev/st0: No such file or directory

Rechecking I see you can't see it in ls... I might suggest it's done something deceptive and mounted it as a sdx where x could be a letter, see if any of the sd's in /dev/ aren't actually currently mounted.

Quick one... why does it say no /dev/st0 for the /dev/sg0 list?

I am not really familiar with tape drives.

However I know about usb drives.

Have you tried?
That should list all of the devices.

Determine which device is the tape drive device.

You then should be able to access your tape drive through /tape

Hope this works :)