Need to add a tape drive DDS4

[Aslamg]

Hi

I am trying to add an external SCSI DDS4 tape drive onto
a Compaq DL380 G2 server.

I have SUSE Linux Professional 8.1 running, with 1 * 18.2Gb HDD and 512Mb of RAM.

I have rebooted, the server with the tape attached
but I cannot see it being picked up automatically
or by using /dev/nst0 or /dev/rmt0

Any advice would be appreciated

Aslam

 

[usige]

First make sure the system sees the tape drive.

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

If you see your tape drive try running:

lsmod | grep st

If the st module is not loaded run:

modprobe st

You need the st module loaded in order to access scsi tape drives. If this doesn't help please post the output of of the above commands and I might be able to help you diag the problem.

Hope that helps.

 

[Aslamg]

Hi
ukbrnx58:~ # cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: none

ukbrnx58:~ # modprobe st

ukbrnx58:~ #lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ftape 104864 0 (autoclean) (unused)
st 26924 0 (autoclean) (unused)
videodev 5600 0 (autoclean)
streams 580928 0
ide-cd 28388 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 26400 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
isa-pnp 29664 0 (unused)
ipv6 138964 -1 (autoclean)
joydev 5600 0 (unused)
evdev 4352 0 (unused)
input 3168 0 [joydev evdev]
usb-ohci 18184 0 (unused)
usbcore 56768 1 [usb-ohci]
e100 68184 1
lvm-mod 62976 0 (autoclean)
reiserfs 179536 1
cciss 36100 3
ukbrnx58:~ #

What do I need to do next ?

Aslam

 

[usige]

Ok, I missed that this is a Compaq DLxxx. By default the Smart Array controller does not expose it's scsi interface to linux. Try the following:

echo "engage scsi" > /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0
modprobe st

This assumes that you only have a single Smart Array controller in the system. You can find out by doing an

ls /proc/driver/cciss/cciss*

You can find some more info on how to set this up permanently by reading:

/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/cciss.txt

Look under the "SCSI tape drive and medium changer support" section.

Hope that helps.

 

[Aslamg]

Hi

I tried doing the echo but it refused to write to the file, I even did chmod 777 ccisso.

I have even tried to vi it but it reports that the file is corrupted.

The document doesn't exists on my system, I'll have to find it.

Thanks again for your help

 

[Aslamg]

Hi

Dont know how or why but the tape works wit the device
/dev/st0

Cheers

Aslam