On Friday 08 November 2002 10:07 pm, Johan van der Walt wrote: > I installed Woody yesterday on my PC. Everything seems okay except for > the fact that I can't access my DAT tape drive. On Potato it was seen > immediately and I expected the same with Woody but it does not see it. > All my work stuff is back-upped on the the DAT tape and I need to get it > back on the hard drive as quickly as possible. > > I followed the normal installation procedure but cannot remember that > I have anywhere seen any reference to SCSI devices. > > What is the easiest way to solve this problem? > > Thanks > > Johan van der Walt
Hi Johan I've got a Sony DDS3 drive running on an Adaptec 2940 here under Woody, so it is definitely possible. Two things need to be working: SCSI and SCSI tape support. Have a look in /var/log/dmesg: (a) Does your SCSI adapter get detected ? - if not, you need to add support for your adapter to the kernel (b) Does the SCSI adapter recognise the tape drive ? - if not, this is likely to be a cabling or setup problem, which is unlikely if all that has happened is a software upgrade (c) Does the tape drive get recognised by the kernel ? (look for "st0") - if not, you need to add SCSI tape support to the kernel HTH - Derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]