The tape drive has worked before, but in a windows machine. not in a linux
machine.
The following information is returned by YAST.
+ +--Python 02779-XXX ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Bus : SCSI ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Class (spec) : Tape ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Class : Mass Storage Device ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Device : Python 02779-XXX ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Device name : /dev/st0 ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Model : ARCHIVE Python 02779-XXX ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Rev : 658A ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Unique key : m9fb.AZnhPU9aNK5 ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Vendor : ARCHIVE ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--driver : aic7xxx ¦ ¦
It is an internal DAT tape drive.
The following is a part of the boot.msg
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<6>scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8
<4>
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
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