Ned Williams wrote:
>
> Hi List,
> I've got a problem and so far the web and IRC havn't
> been any help. Here is what is happening, I'm running Redhat 5.0 with an
> adaptex 2940. I had an exabyte 8505 plugged in and aside from dirty
> heads it worked ok. Yesterday I have to power down and replace the 8mm
> with a Digital Tlz04 4mm brought it back up killed my dev files for st4
> as both drives are scsi id4 then re did Makedev,it created the files,all
> seemed ok. But it wasn't, when I tried to rewind with mt I got the error
> "device not configured" I checked /proc/scsi/scsi and it showed the 4mm
> everything seemed ok. Assuming the drive had problems I powered down and
> put my 8mm back on when I came back up I did the same thing as
> before,killed /dev/st4 then re did Makedev, and again I got "device not
> configured" when I tried to use MT or cat /dev/st4. I then trired
> another 8mm and a Digital tkz60(ibm 3480) and both also gave "device not
> configured" any ideas whats going on? obviously I have rebooted serveral
> times, scsi tape support is is my kernel(I am assuming since I used my
> 8mm fine the first time,and since proc/scsi sees it) Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
First, the tape drive device file will not be associated directly with
the SCSI ID. ID 4 is still st0 if it's the only tape drive on your
system.
Try running your commands to /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0.
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