DAT Tape Drive device name

suab0871 · 10-24-2005, 10:27 AM

Hi,

I am trying to get a HP DAT 72 SCSI internal tape drive working on a HP DL 380 G4 cluster running Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0.

The tape drive is recognised in the bios and I plan on using TAR to perform the backup. However, I need to find out the device name and I don't know the best way to do this in this version of Linux.

Has anyone ever used RHEL 3 and a HP DAT tape together?

I am very new to Linux. I hope this forum is suitable?

Thanks,

Oliver

michaelk · 10-24-2005, 10:54 AM

You can look at the output of the dmesg console command to see if the drive is being recognized by the OS. The device ID will be /dev/st0.