[CentOS] tape drive

Fri Jul 11 02:18:39 UTC 2008
nate <centos at linuxpowered.net>

Pitshou Asingalembi wrote:
> hi all,
> i want to use a compaq sdlt 320 under centos. the tape drive was already
> installed and after rebooting i was not able to see it(dmesg | grep tape or
> dmesg | grep scsi). i add the correct module (modprobe st) but i'm not able
> to use with mt. the st0 file is missing, can someone help to resolve this
> issue.

Do you see it in /proc/scsi/scsi ? If not then your scsi card isn't
seeing it or the driver for the scsi card isn't loaded or something.

nate