How to access tape drive ?

Dear all, I have a scsi tape drive and want to use it to backup. From the output of dmesg, i know that the tape drive is detected. However, I don't know the device file name of the drive. The output of dmesg command : scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev:

Re: How to access tape drive ?

Wilson: I have a SCSI tape too. The device names are /dev/st0 (rewinds after each operation) and /dev/nst0 (does NOT rewind after each operation - you or your program/script must do the rewind). You can use 'mt -f /dev/[n]st0 OPERATION' to manipulate a tape (do man mt for a description of the

Re: How to access tape drive ?

I have checked that there is no /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0. Does it mean the kernel dosen't support tape drive Need me recompile the kernel ?? Thank You! Wilson On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Dean Allen Provins wrote: Wilson: I have a SCSI tape too. The device names are /dev/st0

Re: How to access tape drive ?

Wilson: I have checked that there is no /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0. Does it mean the kernel dosen't support tape drive Need me recompile the kernel ?? Thank You! Wilson Your original post (see later in this post) shows that the kernel recognized your tape drive. Thus you