compaq DLT tape drive

Jamie Wilch jamie at lvwn.com
Mon Jun 28 20:18:42 UTC 2004



John Rowan wrote:
> Jamie Wilch wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to install an external Compaq DTL scsi tape drive.  It is 
>> attached to an Adaptec 2940 scsi pci card which identifies the drive 
>> on boot up.  However, once FC2 is booted, the tape drive appears not 
>> to be reconized.  The hardware browser sees the scsi card, but not the 
>> tape drive.
>>
>> I am running the regualr 2.6.6-1.435 kernel.  Do I need to compile in 
>> a separate driver?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jamie
> 
> 
> You shouldn't have to.  Type the following command in a terminal session
> 
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> 
> that should echo back the devices, SCSI ids that it knows about.
> 
> If you see your DLT and have kdat installed, launch kdat, go to edit -> 
> preferrences and specify your tape device as /dev/st0
> mount your tape then try to backup.  Kdat will tell you it doesn't 
> recognize the tape and ask if you want to format it.
> 
> If you use some other backup software you'd have to perform similar 
> setups but you should be okay if cat /proc/scsi/scsi showed your DLT.
> 

cat /proc/scsi/scsi shows nothing connected.

[jamie at mail kernel]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:

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