Linux Tape Drive Help

[Steven Chen_1]

Hello,

We have a tape drive on Linux Red Hat OS on server and would like to know the way to get information about the server hardware like using hpux "ioscan" and how to mount the tape.

It would be very appreciated if got help here.

Steven

[Stuart Browne]

To find out what devices are connected to your SCSI chain, check /proc/scsi/scsi.

As for 'mounting a tape', well that's a different story. You can't "mount" a tape.

You can access it as the device pair of '/dev/st0' and '/dev/nst0' (rewind and no-rewind respectivly) using you're favourite tools (tar, dd, cpio, etc. etc.)

[D. Jackson_1]

You might try these few steps:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi0/*
cat /proc/scsi/scsi1/*

Look in /proc/scsi*

As for tape:
Look at the man pages for mt (man mt)

HTH