Tape backup using tar

[T. Horsnell]

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>> By experiment, if I 'modprobe st' on s freshly booted system
>> with no scsi tape plugged in, I dont get /dev/st0 created,
>> so I suspect your tape is not visible on the SCSI bus.
>> What does 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' show?
># cat /proc/scsi/scsi
>Attached devices:
>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
>  Vendor: HP       Model: C7438A           Rev: V312
>  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 03
>
>I think yhis looks OK.

Yep. So can you show us the results of lsmod on a freshly
booted system both before and after 'modprobe st'
T.

>
>Many thanks,
>
>Stuart.
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