Hong F Du <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi All,
>
> I just put in a Colorado 250MB tape drive, which is found in a junk
> box, under my Redhat 6.1. I don't have a tape for now. Is there a
> simple way that I can test if the tape drive is working or at least
> communicating with the system. Thank you in advance.
Well, you cannot tell whether it is really working, but you can test
whether it is communicating with the system.
Load the ftape driver and try to access the tape drive with
mt -f /dev/nqft0 status
This should complete without error message and give you some
information about the tape drive.
If you have installed the ftape-tools package then you can use
ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 status
If everything works okay, the ftmt command will report that it has
found a Colorado floppy tape drive.
Also, /proc/ftape/0/tapedrive will contain some information (after
loading the ftape driver)
Regards
Claus
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