Adding a tape drive to Red Hat 7

ME dugan at passwall.com
Thu Mar 15 20:10:39 PST 2001


Once you find the modules that you need to talk to the tape device, you
can often add them in the list to /etc/modules (a text file with modules
to be loaded at boot) so that you won't need to modprobe them
manually.

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Catherine de la Cruz wrote:
> Thank you.  I'll give it a try tomorrow when I am at work.

> ME wrote:
> >What happens when you (as root) do:
> >
> ># modprobe aic7xxx
> >(then assuming no errors)
> ># modprobe st
> >(and maybe)
> ># modprobe sg
> >
> >If
> ># lsmod
> >shows the aic7xxx moduless loaded, but no "st" module try just loading the
> >"st" module. Then see if you can address the tape device with mt and
> >specify the device as st0.
> >
> >("man mt" may be helpful for ejecting tapes, rewinding tapes and talking
> >to the tape device if it is recognized by the OS.) If mt works and
> >controlls it, then tar or another tape archive tool can help you to store
> >files onto tape.




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