HI Tom et al...
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 18:29, Tom Beer wrote:
> do you have mounted the tape?
Oops... I overlooked putting this in my first email.
First of all when I do " modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,9" this is added to
my /var/log/messages file
...............................................................................
May 17 15:58:27 Penguin kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1
controller(s)
May 17 15:58:27 Penguin kernel: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=9,
SCSI ID=7, reconnect=e
May 17 15:58:27 Penguin kernel: aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
May 17 15:58:27 Penguin kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision:
1.7 $
May 17 15:58:27 Penguin kernel: scsi : 1 host.
May 17 15:58:28 Penguin kernel: Vendor: TANDBERG Model: TDC 4100
Rev: =05:
May 17 15:58:28 Penguin kernel: Type: Sequential-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
May 17 15:58:28 Penguin kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0,
id 3, lun 0
...............................................................................
I believe that that is ok. I think that the problem is below. This is what I
added to my fstab file for the tape drive.
...............................................
/dev/tape /tape auto noauto,user,nodev 0 0
................................................
This is what I get when I try to mount the tape.
.............................
Penguin:~ # mount /tape
mount: /dev/tape is not a block device
Penguin:~ #
............................
##############################
Any ideas?
Thanks
JIM
> > Hi all..
> >
> > I've got an old SCSI tape drive that I just put in my system. Linux sees
>
> the
>
> > SCSI card and tells me that the tape drive is /dev/st0. I did a soft link
> > from /dev/tape to /dev/st0.
> >
> > When I try to read a tape using Kdat it tells me that there is no tape in
>
> the
>
> > machine. What could be wrong? BTW I'm running SuSE 7.1 and the tape drive
>
> is
>
> > an QIC-1000.
> >
> >
> > TIA!
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