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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!
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
and it burst into life. So now, I just have to figure out why the hell FC5 doesn't include the 'mt' command.
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.
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To see if you have it installed type ' rpm -qa | grep mt
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