[WBEL-users] Help with an ST tape streamer please

[marcusv]

Hey Conor.

OK did what you suggested.
[root@fileserver fileserver_backup]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open
SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you
are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
[root@fileserver fileserver_backup]#
[root@fileserver fileserver_backup]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: none
[root@fileserver fileserver_backup]#

Any Ideas....?

Just to give you a bit more info.
//////////////////////////
lspci -vv
02:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation INI-940 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 9292:0202
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32, cache line size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: I/O ports at a400 [size=256]
        Region 1: Memory at d9001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=32K]
/////////////////////////// lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
st                     31716   0  (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod              108968   1  (autoclean) [st]
soundcore               6436   0  (autoclean)
ide-cd                 35680   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  33696   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
lp                      9028   0  (autoclean)
parport                37088   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 13364   0  (autoclean) (unused)
8139too                18056   1
mii                     3976   0  [8139too]
crc32                   3712   0  [8139too]
floppy                 58160   0  (autoclean)
microcode               4724   0  (autoclean)
keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
mousedev                5524   1
hid                    22212   0  (unused)
input                   5888   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci               26412   0  (unused)
usbcore                79392   1  [hid usb-uhci]
ext3                   91592   2
jbd                    52336   2  [ext3]
raid1                  14988   3
///////////////////////////
dmesg |grep scsi
[no output]
dmesg |grep st0
[no output]
dmesg |grep tape
[no output]
///////////////////////////[PROBLEM]
tar tvf /dev/st0
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: No such device
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now 
///////////////////////////

-----Original Message-----
From: Conor Wynne [mailto:weeboy@conorwynne.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:04 PM
To: marcusv
Cc: Whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: RE: [WBEL-users] Help with an ST tape streamer please


Hi Marcusv,

Hope you dont mind me bringing this back to the list, but thats why were
are subscribed to a list :)

> Hey The Conor.
>
> I think you might be able to assist me with my problem.
> I have been trying to get this to work for quite a while now.
>
> [root@fileserver fileserver_backup]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices: none
> [root@fileserver fileserver_backup]#

OK, fundamental issue here. No device seen.
So. You may need to add "hd(x)=ide-scsi" to you bootloader. Or its
physically not connected :)

Try installing cdrecord from rpm, and do:

# cdrecord -scanbus

This will most likely detect the drive for you, then re-cat
/proc/scsi/scsi and you should see it.

Regards,

Conor Wynne
Dublin
Irlande.