dds 5 tape drive

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:26:03PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Mitchell Gage wrote:
> >Good morning,
> >
> > 
> >
> >I?ve just taken delivery of  a new server, and have discovered that 
> >backup to tape isn?t working. The tape drive is found in all the right 
> >messages and logs, but a simple tar command to the tape drive gives me :
> >
> > 
> >
> >tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
> >
> >tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> >
> > 
> >
> >or a command to just eject the tape from the tape drive gives me ?No 
> >such device? as follows:
> >
> > 
> >
> >/usr/local/bin : mt -f /dev/st0 eject
> >
> >/dev/st0: No such device
> >
> > 
> >
> >I?m  told by IBM tech support that my IBM DDS 5 (Dat 72) tape drive is 
> >not going to work for me under the Redhat ES 3 operating system ? has 
> >anyone else come across this ? Or is there any way around it ?
> 
> Is this a SCSI or IDE tape interface?  If it's IDE, you may have to
> modprobe the "ide-scsi" module to make it appear as a SCSI device.
> I won't swear to that, but since ES3 is based on the 2.4 kernel, the
> ide-scsi module is still used.  ES4/FC2/FC3 on a 2.6 kernel don't use
> ide-scsi any longer.

Umm, perhaps you mean ide-tape is no longer used.  You put me on to
ide-scsi, which works pretty well for my IDE tape drive.

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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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