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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:32 AM

Jeffrey Thompson wrote:
> I have recently upgrade to RedHat 9.0 and my tape drive has stopped
> working.
>
> I have a HP Model: C5683A Rev: C908 tape drive plugged into a Adaptec
> 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter. The HP C5683A/Adaptec 2940 combo was working
> fine in RedHat 7.3 on an older Dell Dimension PIII 450Mhz system.
>
> Now when RedHat boots up it reports finding both tape and SCSI adapter
> but doesn't "Attach" a device to it (for some reason!).
>
> If anyone can give me a pointer to be able to mount the tape drive
> that would be great.
>
> I've tried: mt -f /dev/nst0 status
> and all of the other /dev/st* and /dev/nst* devices and they all say
> something like: /dev/st0: No such device

You don't mount a tape drive you write and/or read from it.

mt -f /dev/st0 status is correct.

Find out which device it is connected to.

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#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:34 AM

David <thunderbolt01@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<vGPYa.64796$cF.21630@rwcrnsc53>...
> You don't mount a tape drive you write and/or read from it.
>
> mt -f /dev/st0 status is correct.
>
> Find out which device it is connected to

Yes my mistake. What I was telling you is: I tried 'mt -f DEVICE
status' where DEVICE was all possible scsi devices. The point is: for
some reason the HP SCSI tape drive is being found at bootup time but
not "Attached" to a SCSI device.

#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:34 AM

Jeffrey Thompson wrote:
> David <thunderbolt01@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<vGPYa.64796$cF.21630@rwcrnsc53>...
>
>>You don't mount a tape drive you write and/or read from it.
>>
>>mt -f /dev/st0 status is correct.
>>
>>Find out which device it is connected to
>
>
> Yes my mistake. What I was telling you is: I tried 'mt -f DEVICE
> status' where DEVICE was all possible scsi devices. The point is: for
> some reason the HP SCSI tape drive is being found at bootup time but
> not "Attached" to a SCSI device.

Ok Try this to see if it will show the tape drive.

cdrecord --scanbus

It should show something similar to this:

cdrecord --scanbus
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg
Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST336706LW ' '010A' Disk
0,1,0 1) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST39173LW ' '5702' Disk
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW8824S ' '1.00' Removable CD-ROM
0,4,0 4) 'Seagate ' 'STT8000N ' '3.22' Removable Tape
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *

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#4 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:43 AM

I'm not sure why but now my tape drive is working on /dev/st0. The
only thing I did was install the Ximian Desktop Versin 2 (if you
haven't seen it you really do need to check it out at
http://www.ximian.com/products/desktop/ It's a free (400 meg!)
download. Thanks for your helpful suggestions.

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