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On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:29:46PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
On 6 Sep 2005 at 16:35, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
- Install tape drive
- Read the mt man page
- Access the drive using either /dev/nst0 or /dev/st0
Thats all.
There is really no configuration needed, unless you want to setup compression values and such.
If it were only true. There is no such device as /dev/st0 or anything else having to do with scsi in /dev on this system. Kudzu sees the scsi adapter but does not ask to configure it. So how does one tell CentOS4 that the adapter exists? Do I have to manually tell the kernel to load a particular module? If so how and which one?
You can see if the device was recognized correctly by looking at /proc/scsi/scsi.
The devices to access it should be:
/dev/nst0 -> character -> Major 9, Minor 128 /dev/st0 -> character -> Major 9, Minor 0
root.disk with mode 0660 should be the ideal choice.
You can create these devices either using mknod directly, or the /dev/MAKEDEV program.
The kernel module should be loaded correctly, without any specific configurations. That is, as long as you have scsi configured correctly, which I guess is already the case (DLT on an IDE based machine ? Ick!).
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)