Hello Folks,
I have just put in a scsi card with a Compaq 20/40GB DAT tape drive,
what would be the device id or device name for this tape drive ?
Cheers,
Aly.
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Aly S.P Dharshi
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Southern Alberta Digital Library Project
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 16:48, Aly Dharshi wrote:
Hello Folks,
I have just put in a scsi card with a Compaq 20/40GB DAT tape drive,
what would be the device id or device name for this tape drive ?
If it's a rewinding tape (likely), it should be /dev/st0. If it's
non-rewinding
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:48, Aly Dharshi wrote:
Hello Folks,
I have just put in a scsi card with a Compaq 20/40GB DAT tape drive,
what would be the device id or device name for this tape drive ?
Cheers,
Aly.
To use it as a rewinding device ( will rewind after
How do you all do bare metal backup and restores? Anyone ever get a
tape drive recognized while booted in recovery mode? Did you notice the
st device isn't installed when booted in recovery mode? Modprobe st
and mknod /dev/st c 9 0 don't seem to work in recovery mode. I've
tried several
Hi Folks,
Thanks for the information, Hardware Browser lists it as /dev/st I have
tried to get the status of the drive by issuing:
mt -f /dev/st0 status
and I get:
/dev/st0: No such device or address
Similar for nst0, st1, nst1. Please advise. Any
The tape drive is correctly detected in Hardware Browser and has card:
Symbios Logic (SYM53C875)
Device:
Compaq SDT-1 1.16 on Channel A Dev 4
Cheers,
Aly.
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:33, Aly Dharshi wrote:
Hi Folks,
Thanks for the information, Hardware Browser
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:52:57PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 16:48, Aly Dharshi wrote:
Hello Folks,
I have just put in a scsi card with a Compaq 20/40GB DAT tape drive,
what would be the device id or device name for this tape drive ?
If it's a rewinding tape
I just finished installing RH AS 3.0 Beta. They have solved the missing
st tape device issue in 3.0. You can boot to the recovery mode and
access the tape device. Bare metal dump/restore is now possible from
SCSI DLT drives. I hope this useful feature makes it to 3.0 FCS.
Regards
Doug P
