hi,

Am having a usb HP Dat40 Tape drive in my rhel5 server i never used in linux
rhel5 to take some backup am new to tape drives can any one suggest me how to configure tape drive.

any help is appreciatable

Thanks in Advance
Jnreddy

What have you tried? What has happened so far? What software are you using to access the tape? If you pop a tape into it and try `mt status`, what do you get?

hi,

choogendyk i did try anything in linux box as i new to tape drives in linux
i tried your command below is my result,it shows command not found do i need to install any drivers for my tape drive in rhel5 server plz help me to resolve this problem

[root@server1 ~]# mt status
bash: mt: command not found


Thanks in Advance
Jnreddy

That's odd. Try `man mt` or `/bin/mt status`. I'm not a Red Hat user, so I have to rely on google. I found a couple of discussions with people asking where mt was on rhel5. Outside chance it's not installed (check `rpm -ql mt`)? Try installing it (`rpm -ivh mt-st-0.9b-2.2.2.x86_64` or alternative from list below).

According to Red Hat Network:

mt-st-0.9b-2.2.2.x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64)
mt-st-0.9b-2.2.2.i386 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 32-bit x86)
mt-st-0.9b-2.2.2.ia64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 64-bit Itanium)

Those suggestions came from the following:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-L.../msg00180.html
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/...readId=1282808