topic Re: tape drive cannot be detected using red hat 3 8U ON DL380 G4 in Operating System - Linux

tape drive cannot be detected using red hat 3 8U ON DL380 G4

nadmo — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:01:52 GMT

Hi

i have a dl380 G4 WITH REDHAT 3 8U INSTALL
WITH A dat 72 scsi tape but it deosn't dectest the tape after the installation but note that the tape is slot at the same place where the disk are on the same controller.

Can anyone help ?

How can i check if the tape drive is working or detected ?

BR.
Nadmo

Re: tape drive cannot be detected using red hat 3 8U ON DL380 G4

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:55:34 GMT

Shalom,

Probably a scsi id conflict between the disk and tape drive.

For normal performance, you must connect the tape drive to its own scsi controller.

SEP

Re: tape drive cannot be detected using red hat 3 8U ON DL380 G4

nadmo — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:46:07 GMT

Thx very much SEP i really ipreciate your quik answer

I have set a jumper in orther to change the scsi id but still not detecting do you think i need an HBA ? if yes is there any configuration that has to be done before the tape can be detected ?
Or do you have an idear of other solutions ?

Please i really need this to work.

THX Once again.
Nadmo

Re: tape drive cannot be detected using red hat 3 8U ON DL380 G4

nadmo — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:48:51 GMT

Hi SEP,
I made it!!!! is working now and following is what i did.

#modprobe st

check whether there is error message if no then is good

#echo "engage scsi" > /proc/driver/cciss0
#echo "rescan" > /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0

#dmesg

and finaly add the to path to /etc/rc.local so that it will be executed everytime the system start .

Thank for support also.

BR.
Nadine