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in my Suse Linux machine I have two SCSI controllers (on one are my disks
and on the second is my tape). Doing a "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" shows my HP
tape (econd controller, SCSI ID 3). But I cannot access it using the mt
command.
So my suspicion is I have to "mknod" a tape device.

given the many parameters mknod takes I wonder whether someone can give me
an idea...

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Martin

/dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 are the nodes for the first streaming tape,
/dev/st1 and /dev/nst1 for the second.

What happens when you
        $ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
??

Check the output of the demsg command for tape devices.
        $ dmesg | grep -i tape
or
        $ grep tape /var/log/messages

It may be that you don't have tape drives supported in your kernel.
Did you compile it yourself?
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Quote:

> /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 are the nodes for the first streaming tape,
> /dev/st1 and /dev/nst1 for the second.

> What happens when you
> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
> ??

Quote:

> Check the output of the demsg command for tape devices.
> $ dmesg | grep -i tape
> or
> $ grep tape /var/log/messages

> It may be that you don't have tape drives supported in your kernel.
> Did you compile it yourself?

How do I add Tape support (I don't have a GUI but only CLI).
How do I check for Tape support ?

Thanx for your information...

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Martin

Quote:>> Check the output of the demsg command for tape devices.
>> $ dmesg | grep -i tape
>> or
>> $ grep tape /var/log/messages

>> It may be that you don't have tape drives supported in your kernel.
>> Did you compile it yourself?
>no, I didn't (the machine was delivered to us as part of a firewall
>solution).
>How do I add Tape support (I don't have a GUI but only CLI).
>How do I check for Tape support ?

If it's there:
        $ zgrep -i CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST /proc/config.gz
which should produce something like:
        CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y

Or SCSI tape support may have been configured as a module; a
        # modprobe st
might get you going if
        CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m

NB: I haven't checked tape support as a module on my system.

If you need to add kernel support (and you don't want to, or can't
runn a GUI) then do a
        # make menuconfig
etc. in /usr/src/linux for a menu-driven configuration.

One hack, to ensure that you have the same starting config as the
running system is to

        # cd /usr/src/linux
        # mv .config .config.dist
        # zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
then
        # make menuconfig

The SuSE manual is fairly good at describing the build process so I
won't go into the details. :-)

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