I use Dell 124T tape loaders with Centos. The controlling device on mine is separate to the data device. e.g. I use: $> mtx -f /dev/sg1 status But for writing to tape: $> tar cvf /dev/st0 /etc I think the dmesg told me which device to use to control. mjh On 13/03/2008, Scott R. Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu> wrote: > > My unit's firmware: library 05.03, tape d22h, shows the device as set to > random mode. But mtx -f /dev/st0 status gives an error that google says > the device is in sequential mode. dmesg|grep -i hp does reflect CentOS > thinks the device is a sequential unit. > > I've tried this with Fedora 8, too, and both show the same, so it is > either an issue with CentOS/Fedora RPMs, or the version of MTX? > > I'm going to try a simple install of Ubuntu next and see if there is any > difference. > > Is this a bug with the firmware, or with my setup? > > I have rebooted the tape drive and machine several times. > > I have the drive connected to an Adaptec 29160. > > I have another identical drive on another system, with a library firmware > of d21h, tape firmware 04.04, and that works perfectly with mtx, though it > is connected to a different SCSI card. > > Thanks for any help/insights. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080313/47fff7d0/attachment-0005.html>