On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Billy Davis wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed a Seagate STT220000A-RDT Travan 5 tape drive under
>RH 7.3 and gotten it to backup??? If so, what device name does it go by? I have one
>installed as the slave device on IDE2. Linux seems to see it fine, because there are
>53 status messages in the 'dmesg' log that properly describe just about everything
>about the drive (ie, model, capacity firmware version, buffer sizes, etc) but nowhere
>can I find a device name. I have tried st0, ftape, hdd, ht0 and they all fail with
>'no such device'. I just want to do a simple 'tar' backup, but I need to know the
>device name. Can anyone help???
>
We are successfully using the STT20000N (SCSI) version of this tape drive.
The devices ( [n]st0* ) were correctly created at startup. I don't know
what devices would be created for an IDE tape drive. According to the
MAKEDEV man page, these are the tape devices that it creates:
Tape Devices
st[0-7]
SCSI tapes. This creates the rewinding tape device
stx and the non-rewinding tape device nstx.
qic QIC-80 tapes. The devices created are rmt8, rmt16,
tape-d, and tape-reset.
ftape Floppy driver tapes (QIC-117). There are 4 methods
of access depending on the floppy tape drive. For
each of access methods 0, 1, 2 and 3, the devices
rftx (rewinding) and nrftx (non-rewinding) are cre-
ated. For compatability, devices ftape and nftape
are symlinks to rft0 and nrft0 respectively.
I seem to recall that the TRAVAN drives are based on the old QIC format.
Maybe they show up as rmt* devices?
Carl
Carl G. Riches
Software Engineer
Department of Mathematics
Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636
University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397
Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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