dds 5 tape drive

[Rick Stevens]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> 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.

Actually ide-scsi isn't used by 2.6 to handle CDRs or DVD-Rs anymore.
It's supposedly deprecated.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
-                                                                    -
-  BASIC is the Computer Science version of `Scientific Creationism' -
----------------------------------------------------------------------