DAT72 tape drive.

[ehspacl]

Dear All,

I've just built my first 5 Linux boxes with AS4 update 2. After the first it was plain sailing.
However the hardware is a Compact/HP dl380 with a HP DAT72 tape drive. Any idea what the device address is? or whether there are additional drivers I need to install to see it.

 

[smah]

Unless there's other tape drives in there, it's probably /dev/st0.

 

[ehspacl]

No other tape drives and no /dev/st0.

 

[zeland]

Its possible that your device node has not been created. Maybe this will help.


--== Anything can go wrong. It's just a matter of how far wrong it will go till people think its right. ==--

 

[ehspacl]

found a solution on kbase.
This solution is for an internal tape drive on dl380, which is what I've got.

Go to

http://kbase.redhat.com

and search for
tape cciss
and click on the first result. Title starts:-
My HP server shipped with a tape drive connected...

This article solved the issue.