Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-11 Thread Pitshou Asingalembi
yes, when the computer reboots, i saw the tape drive as device detected. but i can not use it when i log on --- En date de : Ven 11.7.08, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : De: nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: [CentOS] tape drive À: centos@centos.org Date: Vendredi 11 Juillet 2008, 7h51 Pitshou

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-11 Thread nate
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: yes, when the computer reboots, i saw the tape drive as device detected. but i can not use it when i log on What kind of scsi controller exactly? send the output of 'dmesg' as well. nate ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-11 Thread Pitshou Asingalembi
the hp smart array 6400 controller. --- En date de : Ven 11.7.08, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : De: nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: [CentOS] tape drive À: centos@centos.org Date: Vendredi 11 Juillet 2008, 8h17 Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: yes, when the computer reboots, i saw the tape

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-11 Thread nate
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: the hp smart array 6400 controller. It's usually not a good idea to connect a tape drive to a raid controller. The 6400 is made to be connected to something like a MSA20/MSA30 (JBOD SCSI shelf) Send the output of the command 'dmesg'. But I think you need to get

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-11 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: the hp smart array 6400 controller. Using the cciss driver? yum install kernel-doc Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/cciss.txt There's a section on how to enable the tape drive. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-11 Thread John R Pierce
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: the hp smart array 6400 controller. thats a raid controller. are you sure it supports plain scsi devices like tape?many raid controllers are disk only, and for things like tape drives, you need a seperate plain scsi port.

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
nate schrieb: Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: the hp smart array 6400 controller. It's usually not a good idea to connect a tape drive to a raid controller. Exactly. Buy a dedicated SCSI-card for that. Tapes sometimes produce interesting events on the SCSI-bus (you might have got to

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread nate
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: hi all, i want to use a compaq sdlt 320 under centos. the tape drive was already installed and after rebooting i was not able to see it(dmesg | grep tape or dmesg | grep scsi). i add the correct module (modprobe st) but i'm not able to use with mt. the st0 file is

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread Pitshou Asingalembi
cat /proc/scsi/scsi gave me only the HDD, the st module was loaded by typing modprobe st  but i don't have the st file under /dev. --- En date de : Ven 11.7.08, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : De: nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: [CentOS] tape drive À: centos@centos.org Date: Vendredi 11

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread nate
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: cat /proc/scsi/scsi gave me only the HDD, the st module was loaded by typing modprobe st but i don't have the st file under /dev. Doesn't matter if the st module is loaded or not. If it's a SCSI tape drive, and if it's connected to your SCSI controller, and if the