----- Original Message ----- From: "John Pettigrew"
To: Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:30 PM Subject: [SLE] Re: newbe wants to backup to scsi-device In a previous message, "J. van Eck (Systeembeheer)"
wrote: but when I try to access the device /dev/st0 with eg:
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
mt returns the message "No such device".
Which suggests that it's somewhere other than /dev/st0. Is it in your /etc/fstab file?
"/dev/st0" will not show up in an fstab file as it is NOT a mountable device, this is a tape drive. -st = scsi tape-
Make sure that the tape drive is turned on when you start the machine, assuming it is external, or it will not be seen by the system.
Further information is required, what kind of tape drive is it, is it internal or external, has it ever worked before? The more information you supply us the better we will be able to help you fix your problem. You may also include you /var/log/boot.msg file for trouble shooting purposes.
-- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998