Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:13:52 -0700 Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gavin Seddon posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:57:31 +: But when I use mt I get ' mt -f /dev/st0 eject /dev/st0: No such device or address' Yes /dev/st0 is there. How should I start the device, as far as I remember I built all scsi modules into the kernel. Gavin. If you have a /dev/st0, the next question is why that error message says you don't. It's likely a permissions thing. I don't have a tape backup machine, so I don't know much about the command set or how it is run, but can you run it as root? Does the error change? I think permissions are the most likely problem; that'd cause mt to be unable to open the device - many utilities don't differentiate between being unable to open something and that something not existing. Gavin; default Gentoo udev rules set the group of st devices to 'tape' (see /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules' so add your user id to the tape group. - -- Kevin F. Quinn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDmFar9G2S8dekcG0RAlGBAKCxq+NPW63+YKEFgWNno6UjeGhVVwCg6KpB H/jIFOWdhX4VaFz0sBlTYa0= =oMt9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work
Hi, root is in tape group. I cannot use mt as a user anyway. I can't see initio in 'dmesg' anymore, also?? Thanks On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 08:13 -0700, Duncan wrote: Gavin Seddon posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:57:31 +: But when I use mt I get ' mt -f /dev/st0 eject /dev/st0: No such device or address' Yes /dev/st0 is there. How should I start the device, as far as I remember I built all scsi modules into the kernel. Gavin. If you have a /dev/st0, the next question is why that error message says you don't. It's likely a permissions thing. I don't have a tape backup machine, so I don't know much about the command set or how it is run, but can you run it as root? Does the error change? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
