I was recently given a Dell PowerEdge 2400 server with a Python tape drive. I've now got Debian 3.0 (Woody) happily running on it, but I can't work out whether or not the tape drive works.
The output of dmesg includes the following:
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scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34572W Rev: 0784
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
(scsi0:0:0:2) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:464 Rev: 1.05
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
(scsi0:0:5:1) Synchronous at 4.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 715G
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
(scsi0:0:6:1) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
The server was sat in a cupboard gathering dust for some time before I got it, so it's entirely possible that the tape drive doesn't work, but I'm hoping it does
I've little experience with tape drives, and absolutely none with tape drives on Linux, so if someone could give me some pointers to work out whether or not the drive works, I'd be very grateful.
Russ