Hi All I cannot get my HP Travan T4000S Scsi tape drive to work. I have gathered all the information I can find about the problem into the rest of this email. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks in anticipation of any assistance given.
Stephen Here is the version information for my system. $ uname -a Linux Cemy1 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown and for mt:- $ mt -V GNU mt version 2.4.2 This is what happens when I try to access my tape drive. I get the same sort of result when I try to access /dev/st0. # mt -f /dev/nst0 status mt: /dev/nst0: Input/output error This is here for comparison with the above only. # mt -f /dev/nst1 status mt: /dev/nst1: Device not configured This is evidence of the st.o module on my machine. The file is located at /lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi # file st.o st.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped Here is a fragment of my /etc/modules file showing that st should load at boot time. # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # lines removed from here ne2k-pci st Here are the two lines from /var/log/messages which suggest to me that the tape drive has been detected:- May 3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 5, s/g segs 16. May 3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Here is the output from the command lsmod:- # lsmod | egrep st st 24264 0 Here is information from /var/log/messages about the booting of my SCSI bus:- May 3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: Vendor: HP Model: T4000s Rev: 1.06 May 3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Here is the information provided about scsi modules by modprobe # modprobe -c | grep scsi path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.2/scsi path[scsi]=/lib/modules/default/scsi path[scsi]=/lib/modules/scsi alias scsi_hostadapter off
