Re: scsi tape drive.


Subject: Re: scsi tape drive.
From: James Bagley Jr. (james@thelostnet.net)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 11:25:12 AKST


Do you have SCSI Tape support built into the kernel?

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Matthew Schumacher wrote:

>
> I don't know what is wrong with this, so I figured I'd ask before I
> spend some more time on it.
>
> I got a machine with a 2.4.10 kernel on it and I am trying access the
> scsi tape drive, but I get the error "/dev/st0: Device not configured".
>
> Anyway, here is some information about the setup:
>
> dmesg:
>
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
> Configuring GDT-PCI HA at 0/12 IRQ 11
> scsi0 : GDT6518RD
> Vendor: ICP Model: Host Drive #00 Rev:
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 735B
> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1001
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> st: Version 20010812, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g
> segs 16
> Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 2, id 5, lun 0
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: 35824950 512-byte hdwr sectors (18342 MB)
> Partition check:
> sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
> Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 2, id 6, lun 0
> sr0: scsi-1 drive
>
> *Note the attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0
>
> I have a /dev/st0 device and it is set up correctly according to the
> linux 2.4 SCSI-HOW-TO
> (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/dnames.html)
>
> # stat /dev/st0
> File: "/dev/st0"
> Size: 0 Filetype: Character Device
> Mode: (0660/crw-rw----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 6/
> disk)
> Device: 8,5 Inode: 23422 Links: 1 Device type: 9,0
> Access: Tue May 5 12:32:27 1998(01288.04:03:37)
> Modify: Tue May 5 12:32:27 1998(01288.04:03:37)
> Change: Wed Feb 9 08:18:59 2000(00643.07:17:05)
>
> Here is the error in action:
>
> # mt -f /dev/st0 status
> /dev/st0: Device not configured
>
> Thanks,
> schu
>
>
>
>

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