topic Re: Tape Drive Driver in Operating System - Linux

Tape Drive Driver

Tamer Shaalan — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:39:03 GMT

Hi all professionals;

I need the driver of HP c1533A Tape Drive for Red Hat Linux 9.0 (kernel 2.4.20-8) with architecture i686.

Thanks in Advance.

Tamer.

Re: Tape Drive Driver

Jeroen Peereboom — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:35:18 GMT

Did you try this:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?pnameOID=12574&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=63916&swEnvOID=1063

JP

Re: Tape Drive Driver

Tamer Shaalan — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:59:10 GMT

Dear JP,

yes, I tried this but when downloading the file, gives error ( file doesn't exist). It seems it had been removed from HP site although I know HP reserve drivers at its site for too long time.

Thank you anyway.

Tamer.

Re: Tape Drive Driver

Jeroen Peereboom — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:09:44 GMT

Well,

I have no problem downloading it at this moment...
It consists of 2 files, install_hpltt and ltt-3.4.1.0-1.i386.rpm ...

JP.

Re: Tape Drive Driver

Stuart Browne — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:38:27 GMT

Actually, I'm wondering why you feel the need for drivers at all.

It's a DDS2 tape drive. I'm assuming on a SCSI bus ('cause that's the only place it can go).

If the tape is being picked up by the BIOS, then the OS should pick it up as well (assuming the SCSI card is supported).

What does the contents of '/proc/scsi/scsi' say?
What does the output of 'lsmod' report? Does it list the 'st' module?

Re: Tape Drive Driver

Runar Jørgensen — Tue, 25 May 2004 03:30:37 GMT

I've had similar problem. Please check the following thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=581109

You will need to load a device driver for your SCSI card. I'm loading aic7xxx:

sg 33828 1 (autoclean)
st 29236 0
aic7xxx 121984 1
sd_mod 12896 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 106112 4 [sg st aic7xxx sd_mod]

I've tried without loading aic7xxx, but it wouldn't work. I could probably do without the sd_mod, but it's automagically loaded from dependency in /lib/modules/*/modules.dep. You need to examine your /etc/modules.conf and modules.dep.

Regards,
Runar JÃ¸rgens