In a message dated: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:13:24 EST
Andrew Bacchi said:
>I am trying to set up Amanda for my remote systems. I use an ATL L500
>14 bay changer/library with an DLT 7000 tape drive. I am currently
>doing simple tar directly to the DLT tape using /dev/st0(or /dev/nst0)
>from a RH Linux 6.2 system.
>
>After reading much documentation, I find no /dev/ch0 and ./MAKEDEV will
>not create this device. The best I can tell is the tape device may be
>/dev/sga. But I admit I am very confused over this. I do have the info
>for tapetype, but not tapedev.
>
>Can anyone lend some info for the ATL series of library/changers? All I
>need is pointing in the right direction. Thanks for any help.
Ahm, I think you need the Generic SCSI device support compiled into the kernel.
I'm not sure about /dev/ch0, but I'm using /dev/sg0 under RH6.2 with an
HP SureStor 818 8-tape autochanger with DLT7000 drive.
Hope this helps.
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Seeya,
Paul
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