Issues installing Ultrium 448 External Tape drive

shyna · 03-05-2011, 02:56 AM

Hello,
I have issues in installing HP Ultrium 448 external tape drive on HP ML 370 G5 server running Red-Hat-Linx OS. It has a SCSI interface & I thought it was suppose to plug & play but not. I got an information that all i need to do is echo "engage scsi" > /proc/drivers/cciss/cciss1 but unfornately i do not know how to do this because i just began learning about LINUX,

Can anyone give me step by step info on how to go about this?

Thanks so much.

This is my first time here!

mesiol · 03-09-2011, 05:01 AM

Hi,

standard SCSI is neither plug&play or hotplug by itself.

You should shutdown the system, connect the appropriate cables, check SCCI-ID and termination, startup the host, check if tape is reported via boot, install mt-st package and do an

Code:

mt -f /dev/nst0 status

where nst0 is the device name reported during boot.