Erez Doron wrote:
hiHi!
i have a idat400 hp scsi tape. the kernel Identifies it, and i have /dev/*st0* char devices.
but whenever i access the tape via tar or mt, i get - no such file or directory.
i didn't use scsi tapes in linux for about 5 years, and i was amazed that the scsi tape is a char device and not a block device, but /proc/devices recognized 9 st char devices and no st block device, the st man page also claims that it is a block device.
anyone has experiance with scsi tapes and can help ?
cheers,
erez.
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I just replaced my grotty old ADR 30 IDE tape drive (which never worked at all under Linux, with or without SCSI emulation), with an ADR 50 SCSI unit. (The ADR30 died and I did a warranty fiddle.) The key to get it working was to replace my old Symbios 50 pin SCSI adapter with an Adaptec UW2940 card - a bit expensive, but it works fine.
Beyond this, I didn't do nuffin'. Dear old SuSE picked up the adapter as new hardware and loaded the relevant module. /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 are available as expected. I checked it out with the supplied TapeWare package and commandline BRU (which I prefer).
I wonder if your problem is also an adapter thing?
Regards,
Daniel
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