Geert Batsleer wrote:

Hi,

after installing centos 4.2 I've noticed that my internal Seagate scsi DAT 72GB tape drive hasn't been recognised in /media or doesn't show up in gnome when putting in a tape.

Do I need to edit fstab first or load additional modules in the kernel during startup?

regards, Geert

You don't mount tape drives.

To use it, you first have to know the dev assigned(!) which is usually /dev/st0 ... /dev/st7. Use the mt command (man mt) to query and manipulate it try $ mt -f /dev/st0 status for openers. Try /dev/st1, /dev/st2.... as needed but /dev/st0 will probably be the right one. Data is written to and read from the drive through the st module (man st); (lsmod to be sure it's loaded). I haven't checked recently but there was once a bunch of examples in the texinfo system for the "tar" [(t)ape (ar)chive] command. $ info tar

Good luck.