-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:29:46PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > On 6 Sep 2005 at 16:35, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > > 1) Install tape drive > > 2) Read the mt man page > > 3) 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 at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDHf5cpdyWzQ5b5ckRAgiAAJsH6aMkvn+1rzwFM7s9kY4IEfVCTgCfWn5l Lh87v2g/de0JAlmfmjpxc6c= =wTG/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----