On Tuesday 02 July 2002 08:58, cwhite wrote: >i need a little help with my new tape drive > >i used to have an internal travan tape drive, scsi, which showed > up as /dev/st0, i recently aquired an external dds3 drive, sony > sdt-9000, so i took my internal drive out of the system and > plugged the dds drive into it > >kudzu picked up this change and made corrections to my system >configuration, however this new drive does not show up as /dev/st0 > nor does it show up as /dev/tape or any other of the dozens of > different devices i tried, i had to make this because i was > severely limited by how much i can backup on to the trusty old > travan > >when linux boot's there is no problem finding the drive, it show > up between my hard drives > >the first hard drive is id 0, /dev/sda >2nd hard drive is id 2, /dev/sdb >3rd hard drive is id 4, /dev/sdc >sony sdt tape drive is id 6, no device is given here >4th hard drive is id 10, /dev/sdd > >i am running redhat 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16
You might want to drag the system on up to 7.3, much thats good has happened in the last 2 years. Then an upgrade remake of the kernel might be in order, checking the options carefully. For some reason, its not assigning a device to the tape. And I assume that an "mt -f /dev/sdt status" returns a device not found error, so the kernel config is a bit suspect. /var/log/dmesg should have had more than that in it, so you may want to post it for review. >any help or pointer as to where i can find a solution to my > problem would be greatly appreciated > >thx -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.04% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
