How to map tape drive to device file in linux

[okwap]

Hi all,

I can get tape drive number/element address from the sg driver

{'access': 1,
'additional_sense_code': 0,
'additional_sense_code_qualifier': 0,
'alternate_volume_tag': bytearray(b'\x02\x00\x00\x1480000094 '),
'ed': 0,
'element_address': 483,
'except': 0,
'full': 0,
'invert': 0,
'medium_type': 0,
'primary_volume_tag': bytearray(b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'),
'source_storage_element_address': 0,
'svalid': 0}]

but how to map it to linux device file, e.g., /dev/st4? Thanks

[AshrafK]

Hello,

Please refer page 17 create device files for the tape drive on the Linux server.

Kindly make sure Linux OS versions is compatible and driver is installed for the LTO X generation tape drive.

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c04571310