On Thursday 02 June 2005 09:45, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 05:13:40PM +0800, JM wrote: > > Hi ALL, > > > > Has anyone ever used a DDS4 tape drive connected via an ordinary SCSI > > Ultra320? > > Yes, but with such a wonderfully vague description of the hardware, what > help we can give you will also be wonderfully limited. > SCSI controller: Adaptec 29320 SCSI Controller IBM DDS 4 tape drive
> > Tape drives are represented in /dev by stX or nstX ... are there > > other representation of a tape drive? > > No. Those are the only possible devices that a normal tape drive could > use. /dev/stX devices rewind automatically after every operation, and > /dev/nstX devices do not. Physically, /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 are > normally the same device. > > > i tried to stat all stX and nstX in /dev using mt but the result is : No > > such device. > > Probably means that Linux has not loaded your SCSI controller card's > drivers. > based on lspci 02:02.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec ASC-29320A U320 (rev 10) > > 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).. > > Perhaps Linux is not detecting it on boot and not loading the needed > modules. What is the make/model of your Ultra320 controller? What is > your GNU/Linux distribution? These are absolutely *essential* > information if you want anyone to help troubleshoot. > im using RH9 2.4.x kernel.. > Some controllers (notably the SmartArray 5i controller used on HP > Proliant servers), have special instructions to get tape drives attached > to them working. You have to write 'engage scsi' to some special files > in /proc to get any tape drives to work. _________________________________________________ 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
