Tape drive problem

mahabooba · 02-13-2006, 04:00 AM

Hi every one ,

We are using hp DLT VS 160 tape drive .
In windows the tape drive is working proporely and easyly we are taking the backup .

In similar way we tried in Linux but it is not recognizing .

SCSI interface is also working properly.

Please tell me the procedure to connet the Tapadrive in Linux.

Thanking you,

Regards,
Mahaboob

satinet · 02-13-2006, 05:44 AM

there is a utlitly called 'lsscsi' to list scsi devices. but you can look in /proc. you can also scan for scsi devices but i cant remember how to do this.

once you have a device name e.g /dev/st0 you should be able to use it in cpio command etc. e.g cpio -ocudB "/usr*" > /dev/st0

mahabooba · 02-13-2006, 11:30 PM

We are using
Redhat -3 operating system.
Adaptec SCSI 39160 interface card.
hp DLT 160 tape drive .
We installed the Adaptec SCSI drivers and DLT tape drive drivers.But still it is not recoginizing the scsi and unable to detect the channel number also.But it is working in windows.

Please explain the detail procedure for instalation unit of Tape drive in Linux.

Please help me in this regard,

Regards,
Mahaboob

satinet · 02-14-2006, 11:44 AM

well, your kernel has to have scsi support in, otherwise it wont work at all. I've never actaully tried to get a tape drive working in linux. only hp-ux,sco unix and NetBSD.

you dont state how you tried to find the device, so its hard to advise.