Hp Dl380 G4 Smartarray 6i, Dat72

[Gopi Sekar]

is your tape drive model no is C7438A? if it is so, then kernel is able to detect the system.

in that case try loading st module by 'modprobe st'

and after that put dmesg and see whether you are getting some st message at the bottom.

Regards,
Gopi

[Bruno_48]

in dmesg theres no mention to st

[root@xpty root]# mprobe st

[root@xpty root]# lsmod

st 30548 0 (unused)

[Gopi Sekar]

can you attach your dmesg output and /var/log/messages. if not me somebody else can enlight on what is going wrong.

[Bruno_48]

Here is the attachment with the dmesg and /var/log/messages output

Best regards
Bruno

[xyko_1]

Hi Bruno,

look for some device called cciss0.
find /dev -name cciss0 will help you.

I guess that this is the device for your tape. From your messages file we have

Jun 4 00:21:51 lx0srp1 kernel: scsi0 : cciss0
Jun 4 00:21:51 lx0srp1 kernel: Vendor: HP Model: C7438A Rev: V312
Jun 4 00:21:51 lx0srp1 kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Jun 4 00:21:51 lx0srp1 rc: Starting compaq_cciss_scsi: succeeded


regards,
xyko

[xyko_1]

Hi Bruno,

I found a document that may help you better. It is about Smart Array version 5 but I think that the same applys to version 6.

That's the document
http://www.cpqlinux.com/cciss-tape.html

regards,
xyko

[Stuart Browne]

Well those logs are showing the tape drive as being listed (the fact that a 'Sequential-Access' device is listed in '/proc/scsi/scsi').

It certainly does seem odd that the drive isn't being tied when the ST module is probed.

Are there any references to 'TAPE' in '/etc/sysconfig/hwconf' ?

[Bruno_48]

there aren't any references to 'TAPE' in '/etc/sysconfig/hwconf' ?

[Stuart Browne]

Well, there's a Sequential access device listed in '/proc/scsi/scsi', and if the 'st' module is loaded, '/dev/st0' (or nst0) should be able to access your tape drive.

[xyko_1]

Hi Bruno,

did you look at the documentation I told you on may last response ? It says that your kernel has to be configured to accept tapes attached to smartarray cards. I think it's not a default configuration so tou have to pay attention to it.

regards,
xyko