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Old 04-26-2005, 02:47 PM   #1
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Unhappy IBM tape Drive problem


I am totally new to Linux, i have installed Enterprise Server AS v4 successfully and all appears to be working fine except the tape drive..although it may be working and i just don't know where to look to find out..haha..the drive is working in that i can see it during the bootup of the server during the SCSI inquiry on the card...but once i get logged into Linux i have no clue...i found the Hardware Browser and i don't see the tape drive listed there...i am not even sure if it is seeing the SCSI card that it is plugged into or not either....it is plugged into an IBM Ultra320 SCSI card and the tape drive is an IBM DLT VS160....the server is a an IBM xseries 236....i installed the Amanda Tape backup system that i found on the CD's that came with the Linux distrubution it but after it installs i can find no menu item referencing it on the X windows desktop or in the Applications + Actions menus at the top...so now i am at a loss..so hopefully someone can assist or point me in the right direction...thanks
 
Old 04-26-2005, 05:09 PM   #2
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Tape drive devices are /dev/st0, /dev/st1... & /dev/nst0, /dev/nst1....
Look at the output of lspci. This will display the chipset information for the SCSI card. Post the output. You can look at the output of the command lsmod to see if you see anything that looks like the SCSI controller. You should see several SCSI modules too. Make sure the SCSI tape module st is loading.
 
Old 04-27-2005, 10:39 AM   #3
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i had a look into /dev and do not see any of the devices that you specified, below is the results of the two commands you gave me.



lsmod

Module Size Used By
Nls_utf8 6081 1
Parport_pc 27905 1
Lp 15405 0
Parport 37641 2 parport_pc,lp
Autofs4 22085 0
I2c_dev 14273 0
I2c_core 25921 1 i2c_dev
Sunrpc 136637 1
Md5 8001 1
Ipv6 238817 10
Dm_mod 57157 0
Button 10449 0
Battery 12869 0
Ac 8773 0
Uhci_hcd 32729 0
Ehci_hcd 31813 0
Tg3 79173 0
Floppy 58065 0
Sg 38113 0
Ext3 118473 3
Jdb 59481 1 ext3
Ips 49637 4
Sd_mod 20545 6
Scsi_mod 116557 3 sg,ips,sd_mod



Lspci

Lists the card so that is a good sign at least:

03:0d.0 SCSI Storage Controller: Adaptec ASC-29320ALP U320 (rev 10)
 
Old 04-27-2005, 10:43 AM   #4
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i missed the last part of your message, you said to make sure ST is loaded, i am begininng to think that is what the problem is...how do i load that?
 
Old 04-27-2005, 11:51 AM   #5
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The SCSI controller and the tape modules are not loading. Try the commands:
modprobe aic7xxx
modprobe st
 
Old 04-27-2005, 11:59 AM   #6
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ok i typed in those two commands and when i run lsmod now they are listed as follows:


Module Size used By
scsi_mod 116557 st,aic7xxx,sg,ips,sd_mod

i gather that is a good thing, what next?
 
Old 04-27-2005, 12:41 PM   #7
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You should be set.

If you have the utility mt installed on your system try the following command.
mt -f /dev/st0 status

I've never played with Amanda so I can not help you there but it isn't a GUI application.

http://www.amanda.org/docs/using.html
 
Old 04-27-2005, 12:54 PM   #8
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thanks for the help......those two commands that you had me enter, how do i get them to autoload during bootup?
 
Old 04-27-2005, 12:59 PM   #9
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i tried to run the mt command you specified but it said no such device, so i looked in /dev and there is no "st0" or "st" anything and no "nst" anything either
 
Old 04-27-2005, 01:01 PM   #10
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also, is there any GUI based backup utility that comes with Red Hat Enterprise AS that i could use? i can't seem to find one
 
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Look at the output of dmesg command after the modules are loaded. Are there any messages relating to the tape drive?

What desktop are you running? KDE or Gnome etc... Kdat is a KDE GUI frontend for the tar utility. You can also search www.freshmeat.net for backup solutions. Arkeia Server Backup I believe is GUI.
 
  


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