topic Re: tape drive in Operating System - Linux

tape drive

Fadia Almarei — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 01:22:54 GMT

Dear All

i have connect dlt tape drive to my linux 9 system (to scsi cable), i want to know if the system can detect the tape drive by itself , else what should i do for that ,wating for your help

Regards Fadia

Re: tape drive

Mobeen_1 — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 01:40:36 GMT

Fadia,

If you boot your system at the first boot, Linux is designed in a way to detect the hardware and configure accordingly. This is mostly true for all cases where the devices are supported by Linux and you can check the devices supported at http://www.redhat.com

If this doesn't happen, then i would suggest that you check the following

1. Check your hardware vendor's site for Linux drivers and install instructions.

If none of the things listed above work for you, which is highly unlikely, then you can create drivers yourself. Try exploring http://www.tldp.org and search for information on how to build drivers.

Let us know, how things go for you.

rgds
Mobeen

Re: tape drive

KapilRaj — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 02:50:26 GMT

I think the kernel has a driver for it and it should get detected by itself !

Why don't you confirm with "lsdev"

Regds,

Kaps

Re: tape drive

V.Tamilvanan — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:25:03 GMT

Hi,
Defaultly Linux Machines should autosense and configure the Tape driver into the kernel when it is booting.
You can check whether the tape is configured by using dmesg or seeing /var/log/messages file.
If not you need check with the vendor.

Re: tape drive

Fadia Almarei — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:22:22 GMT

hi all

when i repote my system it detect the scsi tape drive as /dev/st0 , but when i do abcup for a small test file it gives me the following error message
"tst
tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now"
what shull i do for that
thanks in advance

Re: tape drive

Fred Ruffet — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:53:39 GMT

Is it a single tape drive, or a library (one drive and multiple tape slots). In this last case, /dev/st0 might be the library device (to mount tape), and there is another device (probably /dev/st1) for the drive.

If it is a single tape drive, have you done a mt -f /dev/st0 load before trying to write on it ?

Re: tape drive

Muhammad Asif Anwar — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 11:05:11 GMT

Similar kind of problem where my Linux, after the reinstallation, is unable to detect the DLT tape drive. The drive was working fine before the installation. But after the reinstallation of server, Linux did not detect the DLT tape drive.

Please help.

Regards and thanks,

Re: tape drive

Fadia Almarei — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:18:13 GMT

dear mohammad

my problem was resolved i reboot my system and simply the dlt tape drive was detected , so just reboot your system and to check that it is work ,use
dmesg | grep dlt :and you will see the result
or
mt -f /dev/st0 status : and you will see that it is work

BR,
Fadia

Re: tape drive

priscillav — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:23:19 GMT

Hi
I am connecting a HP surestore DLT tape library using a SCSI drive. I have installed Redhat linux 9.1. Redhat detects the Drive but not the library. It doesn't detect any DLTs. Kindly help.

Regards
Priscilla Vincent