topic list of tape drives in Operating System - Linux

list of tape drives

ani007 — Wed, 04 May 2011 04:03:00 GMT

HI,
How to find out list of tape drives visible from OS side. OS RHEL 5.5

Regards,

DeafFrog — Wed, 04 May 2011 05:15:57 GMT

Hi Ani ,

assuming that you linux flavour is RH , an "lspci" should give the idea.check there for some mention of word like tape
I found this link useful :

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/tape-drives-naming-convention-under-linux/

Regards,

ani007 — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:54:22 GMT

Hi,
tnx for the reply..#lsscsi & #cat /proc/scsi/scsi -- show me the scsi tape drive