Hi Guys,

Want some help to get my tape drive work.

I have 2 SCSI disks and 1 SCSI tape drive. Disks are working fine.
But the tape drive not.

In /proc/scsi/scsi, I have

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3367NC Rev: 5207
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3367NC Rev: 5207
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
Vendor: SDR Model: GEM318 Rev: 0
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02


Why Type: Processor in the 3rd entry ?

When I issue " mt -f /dev/st0 status", I get "/dev/st0: No such device".

And when I issue "mt -f /dev/sg2 status", I get "/dev/sg2: Operation not permitted".

Thanks in advance for any help.

-San

do you have scsi tape support built into your kernel?

-Joey

In your /proc/scsi/scsi listing I don't see anything that looks like a tape drive.

From Google, I get:
FUJITSU Model: MAP3367NC > 36GB 80PIN SCSI FUJITSU DRIVE
FUJITSU Model: MAP3367NC > 36GB 80PIN SCSI FUJITSU DRIVE
SDR Model: GEM318 > Altos G700 BPL4 disk cage

Perhaps you need to check your power and SCSI cable connections?

Hi,

Actually the drive model is STD2401LW.

Now I can 't find drivers from anywhare ?

The only driver you need is the SCSI tape module st. What distro are you running?

If it isn't loading try:
modprobe st

It's RHEL 3.0.

[root@bear root]# modprobe st
[root@bear root]# mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
/dev/st0: No such device


May be I'll try a newer version of st ?

Check the output of dmesg. Do you see the tape drive?
Also try
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Does anything show for the drive?

The device might be something other than /dev/st0. Do you have a /dev/scsi directory?

I tried "dmesg|grep tape". Nothing.

But for dmesg|grep scsi it gives;

Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0, type 3

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My /proc/scsi/scsi is;

[root@bear etc]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3367NC Rev: 5207
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAP3367NC Rev: 5207
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
Vendor: SDR Model: GEM318 Rev: 0
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02

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In the last entry "Type: Processor"


And I don't have a /dev/scsi/ directory.

Is the SCSI ID of the tape drive 8?
Are you using SCSI emulation?

Yes, ID 8.

>Are you using SCSI emulation?

How can I know ???

Regards.