On Wednesday 01 June 2005 17:56, myList wrote: > SCSI's config tool? Is this the one > right after the BIOS and before bootup?
yup.. i have 2 cards installed... 1 RAID card for my disks.. both channels are used up.. so i installed anonther SCSI adpatec card.. i just dont know if the card is compatible with the tape drive.. ( the supplier says it is.. but im having doubts ) > > Did you already check /proc/scsi/scsi file? > There should be an entry of your tape drive on > that file. And also check /proc/devices. what i got is this... Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 13 input 27 zft 29 fb 36 netlink 128 ptm 129 ptm 130 ptm 131 ptm 132 ptm 133 ptm 134 ptm 135 ptm 136 pts 137 pts 138 pts 139 pts 140 pts 141 pts 142 pts 143 pts 162 raw 180 usb Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 8 sd 65 sd 66 sd > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:13 PM > Subject: [plug] Tape drive help.. > > > Hi ALL, > > > > Has anyone ever used a DDS4 tape drive connected via an ordinary SCSI > > Ultra320? Tape drives are represented in /dev by stX or nstX ... are > > there > > other representation of a tape drive? > > > > i tried to stat all stX and nstX in /dev using mt but the result is : No > > such > > device. > > > > Does anyone here knows how to troubleshoot tape drives? I was able to > > see the hardware using the SCSI's config tool (w/c can be seen on boot > > up).. > > > > tia, > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

