installing a DDS tape drive

[Chris Fadrowski]

I am installing a tape device on my D250 server. I can't remember what to look for and the command that shows if the device driver is in the kernel. Can anyone tell me what needs to be in the kernel or a patch required to install and use a DDS scsi tape device?

[Patrick Wallek]

Once you have the tape drive attached, making sure that you don't have any SCSI id conflicts, do an 'ioscan -fnC tape' and make sure that it shows up as "Claimed" and that all the device files (/dev/rmt/?m, ?mn, etc.) were created for you. If they were, then you should be ready to go.

[Craig Rants · Accepted solution]

Usually a tape drive is called stape, first of after you have installed your DDS tape and powered the system back on, run an ioscan -fnC tape to see if you device has been claimed. If so, your good to go. If not run insf -e to install the special file and then see what happens.


GL,
C

[S.K. Chan]

Add on to Patrick's answer. In "ioscan -fnC tape" you would see the driver used is usually "tape2" for a DDS tape drive. It should be in the kernel already (the "tape2" driver). If you don;t see it in "ioscan" add the driver to the kernel via SAM.

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

Add stape and tape2 to the kernel thro SAM.

Piyush

[Arockia Jegan]

#ioscan -funC tape

If it's not showing CLAIMED then the driver is not configured. You need to configure that. If it's claimed and showing the device files then you can access the drive (/dev/rmt/.

If it not showing the device files you need to create thos files. Run,

#insf -e stape

(Generally the driver for DDS tape drive is stape.You can find out that when you run ioscan -funC tape)

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Chris

Well you dont need much to do.

1.Just connect it and boot the machine , the DDS drive will be autoamatically sensed in case you have the right id ie the SCSI id set which is not conflicting with any other id.

2. ioscan -fnC Tape will make you see the device file.


Manoj Srivastava