James B. Byrne wrote:
I need to install an HP Surestore dlt on a Centos 4 machine and I am at a loss as to how to proceed. Can someone either provide or point me to an online reference on how to proceed to add and configure a SCSI adapter and tape drive. I have read, but not really understood, the man page entry for st. Does kudzu handle this?
Regards, Jim
The tape drive should work out of the box, as long as your scsi adapter is supported.
Connect your drive to the server, boot and look at the boot messages. You can always do a 'dmesg' afterwards. You should see your tape detected there (or not).
Then, you can use mt to manipulate the tape, but to do backups, you're more likely to use tar, cpio, or even mondorescue.
I am a digest subscriber so the favour of an additional direct reply is desired.
-- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3