topic Re: Linux Tape Drive Help in Operating System - Linux

Linux Tape Drive Help

Steven Chen_1 — Tue, 06 Aug 2002 12:52:04 GMT

Hello,

We have a tape drive on Linux Red Hat OS on server and would like to know the way to get information about the server hardware like using hpux "ioscan" and how to mount the tape.

It would be very appreciated if got help here.

Steven

Re: Linux Tape Drive Help

Stuart Browne — Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:24:22 GMT

To find out what devices are connected to your SCSI chain, check /proc/scsi/scsi.

As for 'mounting a tape', well that's a different story. You can't "mount" a tape.

You can access it as the device pair of '/dev/st0' and '/dev/nst0' (rewind and no-rewind respectivly) using you're favourite tools (tar, dd, cpio, etc. etc.)

Re: Linux Tape Drive Help

D. Jackson_1 — Wed, 07 Aug 2002 14:50:39 GMT

You might try these few steps:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi0/*
cat /proc/scsi/scsi1/*

Look in /proc/scsi*

As for tape:
Look at the man pages for mt (man mt)

HTH