On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:18:35PM -0500, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > I know questions about tape drives are possibly out of scope for > code4lib, but I'll try anyway. > Yes, probably more appropriate for your local LUG, but, since you asked... > Do I need to tweak my Linux kernel in order for my computer to > recognize my internal SCSI tape drive? > > I recently purchased a new piece of hardware from Dell. As requested, > it came completely clean. I installed Fedora 5 on it, and it is up an > running. The hardware came with a PowerVault (SCSI) tape drive, and > for the life of me I can't get anything written to the tape. I use > this command: > > tar cvf /dev/st0 / > > But tar comes back and says there is no such device. I use MAKEDEV to > create devices (from SCSI ID 0 - 7), and while files are created in / > dev I still get "no such device" errors. > > Maybe I need turn something on in a kernel configuration file > somewhere? I think I see the device listed during the BIOS boot > process. Do I need a driver? What am I doing wrong? What am I missing? > First thing to do is see whether the device is actually listed. Does a $ dmesg | grep scsi or $ dmesg | grep -e '^st' give anything useful? What's in /proc/scsi/scsi and /proc/diskstats? gabe