topic Re: How to find the tape device in Operating System - Linux

How to find the tape device

hangyu — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:46:42 GMT

I have a external tape drive that connect to the server via scsi card , I can see the tape drive by ARCserve , how can I know what is the tape drive device path ( eg. /dev/st0) ? thx

Re: How to find the tape device

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:15:06 GMT

Normally the dmesg command will list the devices detected and their names. /dev/st0 is the default tape device for Linux.

Re: How to find the tape device

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:25:17 GMT

Shalom,

/dev/st0 is the default path for an attached tape drive.

Check that its turned on and the scsi id is not zero the id the scsi card normally gets. Also see that the scsi card if used is compatible with the drive.

The device should be visible via hwbrowser as well.

SEP

Re: How to find the tape device

George Liu_4 — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:32:09 GMT

From either dmesg or messages, find something like

Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0

You know it is st0 or something else.

Re: How to find the tape device

hangyu — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:46:10 GMT

thx reply ,

in the /dev directory , there is 2004st0 , is it the device path of tape drive ? thx

Re: How to find the tape device

George Liu_4 — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:41:16 GMT

Yes. it seems like /dev/st0
please post the longer message to make sure

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