Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
nate schrieb: Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: the hp smart array 6400 controller. It's usually not a good idea to connect a tape drive to a raid controller. Exactly. Buy a dedicated SCSI-card for that. Tapes sometimes produce "interesting" events on the SCSI-bus (you might have got to s

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread John R Pierce
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: the hp smart array 6400 controller. thats a raid controller. are you sure it supports plain scsi devices like tape?many raid controllers are disk only, and for things like tape drives, you need a seperate plain scsi port. _

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: the hp smart array 6400 controller. Using the cciss driver? yum install kernel-doc Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/cciss.txt There's a section on how to enable the tape drive. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Car

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread nate
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: > the hp smart array 6400 controller. It's usually not a good idea to connect a tape drive to a raid controller. The 6400 is made to be connected to something like a MSA20/MSA30 (JBOD SCSI shelf) Send the output of the command 'dmesg'. But I think you need to get anoth

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread Pitshou Asingalembi
the hp smart array 6400 controller. --- En date de : Ven 11.7.08, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : De: nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Objet: Re: [CentOS] tape drive À: centos@centos.org Date: Vendredi 11 Juillet 2008, 8h17 Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: > yes, > when the computer

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread nate
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: > yes, > when the computer reboots, i saw the tape drive as device detected. but i > can not use it when i log on What kind of scsi controller exactly? send the output of 'dmesg' as well. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread Pitshou Asingalembi
yes, when the computer reboots, i saw the tape drive as device detected. but i can not use it when i log on --- En date de : Ven 11.7.08, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : De: nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Objet: Re: [CentOS] tape drive À: centos@centos.org Date: Vendredi 11 Juille

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread nate
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: > cat /proc/scsi/scsi gave me only the HDD, the st module was loaded by typing > modprobe st but i don't have the st file under /dev. Doesn't matter if the st module is loaded or not. If it's a SCSI tape drive, and if it's connected to your SCSI controller, and if the

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread Pitshou Asingalembi
cat /proc/scsi/scsi gave me only the HDD, the st module was loaded by typing modprobe st  but i don't have the st file under /dev. --- En date de : Ven 11.7.08, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : De: nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Objet: Re: [CentOS] tape drive À: centos@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread nate
Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: > hi all, > i want to use a compaq sdlt 320 under centos. the tape drive was already > installed and after rebooting i was not able to see it(dmesg | grep tape or > dmesg | grep scsi). i add the correct module (modprobe st) but i'm not able > to use with mt. the st0 file

[CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-10 Thread Pitshou Asingalembi
hi all, i want to use a compaq sdlt 320 under centos. the tape drive was already installed and after rebooting i was not able to see it(dmesg | grep tape or dmesg | grep scsi). i add the correct module (modprobe st) but i'm not able to use with mt. the st0 file is missing, can someone help to re

[CentOS] Tape Drive and Bacula issue

2008-03-25 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I posted this in the Bacula list without success so I hope I might have some luck here. Btape and mt can access my DDS-3 Seagate Archive Python 06480-xxx tape drive but Bacula tray-mon ends up finally stating that it cannot open device /dev/nst0? That is the device string that I use to access th