On Sun, 30 May 2010 08:17:27 -0400 masker <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote:
> > > Phil Stracchino wrote: > > > > What is this lin-tape you speak of? > > > > If your Linux kernel is properly configured (i.e, SCSI HBA support, SCSI > > tape support, and the PERC6 low-level SCSI driver enabled), it should > > Just Work. If those aren't compiled into your kernel, see if you have > > them present as modules. > > > > > The "lin-tape" or "lin_tape" means the driver name of IBM ULTRIUM-HH5 tape > drive. > I've download the lin_tape-1.38.0-1.src.rpm from IBM website. But I can't > compile it in Debian 5.0.4. > The SAS HBA driver is "mpt2sas", it was installed in my system, successfully. > Then I could use "mt -f /dev/st0 status", but I got error message like "read > error.. " if I type " mt -f /dev/st0 tell". > Under this situation , it could write by "tar" command, but show "write > error..." after several hours. > If I connect the tape drive to a machine of CentOS with right driver, it show > "/dev/IBMtape0" as the device name, and I could have right answer by "mt -f > /dev/IBMtape0 tell" > > So. I need some help. If anyone have any suggestion to help me install the > tape in Debian OS? > It should "just work" without using the special driver. My LTO drives are IBM and my library is IBM and I don't use any special driver, just the 'st' kernel module or whatever its official name is. What is your output of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' or check dmesg for relevant messages or also try the 'tapeinfo' command on the various sg devices. -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
