FC5 and scsi tape drive troubles
I have FC5 installed and my scsi DAT tape drive is detected just fine in dmesg.
However, there is no such device at /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0. FC5 doesn't have the command 'mt' and I have no idea where to go from here. Any help/suggestions would be very welcome! Regards! |
You can get an rpm package of mt from http://rpm.pbone.net
Not at my desktop with scsi dat drive so not sure what to check. Lets see what the output of the following commands cat /proc/scsi/scsi Brian1 |
[sheldon@home dev]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L105 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 [sheldon@home dev]$ |
I wonder if the st module is loaded. Type the command ' lsmod ' and post results. Mostly looking for a line like this containing st module
Code:
aic7xxx 134708 11 Code:
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi If you have no st module then as root use the command to load it. /sbin/modprobe st Lets see if that helps. Brian1 |
Here's my results:
Code:
[sheldon@home dev]$ /sbin/lsmod |
I've heard it said that FC5 replaced the 'mt' command with 'scsitape' is this true? Even if it is, 'scsitape' results in "command not found".
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ah ha... I rebooted the system and I noticed that the green led was ON on the front of the tape drive this time. (I originally shoved a tape in there, it loaded and I had no lights) I didn't know that I was supposed to have a green light on simply when the tape is loaded.
so I tried a: Code:
tar -tf /dev/st0 |
All distro differ in what they package based on what they believe most users of the distro are going to use.
edit: Going over to fedora core site and looking through the mirrors site of fc5 rpms, it shows the mt-st package. It can be gotten here. http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fed...2.2.1.i386.rpm Now why you may not have it installed may depend on the choices of packages during your installation. So more than likely the rpm is on the install CD or can be gotten from above link. As far as the LEDs I am not sure since never seen that model or worked with one. Might refer to the manuafactors site for led status. edit: To see if you have it installed type ' rpm -qa | grep mt edit: Brian1 |
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