Re: FN-FORUM Linux Help

date posted 9th December 2002 20:07

Quoting Bob Dowler [EMAIL REMOVED]

> I have a new Red Hat 8.0 Linux system that has a Seagate STD224000N Dat Tape
> Drive (SCSI) built into it.
>
> My client wants to start backing up to the tape drive but the system does
> not detect that a drive is present.

Does the system detect a SCSI card at all?

If so, you should be able to cat /proc/scsi/scsi to see what scsi
devices are attached. I'm fairly sure the tape drive should be listed
there even if you don't have the scsi tape driver installed.

If it doesn't detect the tape drive there, I'd suspect some kind of
hardware issue, such as incorrect termination or connection of the
drive.

If it does, you need to make sure the "st" module is installed
(/sbin/lsmod will tell you which modules are installed) and that the
/dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 devices exist.

James