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Hi. Can't seem to get an Exabyte 8700 to work. SCSI tape drive, Adaptec
2940 UW, Open Server 5.0.4.

I have installed many times and I can't get the thing to read the device.
Error message is

tar: cannot open: /dev/xct0

default driver is as follows

device = /dev/xct0
curdriver=Stp1

Thanks in advance.

Kevin O'Donnell typed (on 27Oct):
| Hi. Can't seem to get an Exabyte 8700 to work. SCSI tape drive, Adaptec
| 2940 UW, Open Server 5.0.4.
|
| I have installed many times and I can't get the thing to read the device.
| Error message is
|
|
| tar: cannot open: /dev/xct0
|
|
| default driver is as follows
|
| device = /dev/xct0
| curdriver=Stp1

/dev/xct0 is the name of the device for issuing ioctl control commands.
Try using /dev/rStp1.

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Quote:>Hi. Can't seem to get an Exabyte 8700 to work. SCSI tape drive, Adaptec
>2940 UW, Open Server 5.0.4.

>I have installed many times and I can't get the thing to read the device.
>Error message is

>tar: cannot open: /dev/xct0

>default driver is as follows

>device = /dev/xct0
>curdriver=Stp1

You usually get this error when you use the tape command.

If you run mkdev tape and select the change default tape drive option.

If you indeed have two tape drives installed in the system as indicated by
Stp1, change the default to the appropriate drive.  The links then end up
using xct0 correctly.

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