Tape backup using tar

[T. Horsnell]

>--On Sunday, August 07, 2005 11:16 AM +0100 Stuart Bailey 
><stuart at linusoft.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Ok, the st module is loaded. I have tried unloading and reloading it-
>> nthis works fine. However, /dev/st0 is not created.
>
>Sounds like a udev issue. Beyond that, I don't know.
>

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?

Terry.

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