Have you looked in dmesg for any entries for your tape drive? If it is not in there the o/s will never see it.
Make sure the scsi number for the tape drive is unique. here are some basic commands -- thats all I know about mt. # mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 1024 # tar -l -cvf /dev/nst0 ./var ./var/ ./var/lib/ ./var/lib/rpm/ ./var/lib/rpm/Packages ./var/lib/rpm/Name ./var/lib/rpm/Basenames ./var/lib/rpm/Group ./var/lib/rpm/Requirename ./var/lib/rpm/Providename tar: /dev/nst0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now # mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind # tar -tvf /dev/nst0 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-31 19:58:52 ./var/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-05-31 18:25:00 ./var/lib/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1996-02-14 17:07:19 ./var/lib/rpm/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 12255232 2002-05-31 19:57:13 ./var/lib/rpm/Packages ta -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
