Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Ken Schneider <kschneider@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:28, J. van Eck (Systeembeheer) wrote:
> 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>        <Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter>
> <4>        aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
> <4>
> <4>blk: queue c7f7c214, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> <4>  Vendor: IBM       Model: DNES-309170W      Rev: SA30
> <4>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> <4>blk: queue c7f7c614, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> <4>(scsi0:A:0): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
> <4>  Vendor: ARCHIVE   Model: Python 02779-XXX  Rev: 658A
> <4>  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> <4>blk: queue c7f7ce14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> <4>(scsi0:A:2): 7.812MB/s transfers (7.812MHz, offset 15)
> <4>scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 32
> <7>sd_init()
> <4>sd: allocated major 8
> <7>sd_attach()
> <7>sd: find_free_slot ...<7>sd: ... found 08:00
> <4>Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> <7>sd_attach()
> <7>sd_finish()
> <7>sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00
> <4>SCSI device sda: 17916240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9173 MB)
> <6>Partition check:
> <6> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
> <4>reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
> <4>reiserfs: checking transaction log (sd(8,3)) for (sd(8,3))
> <4>reiserfs: using ordered data mode
> 
> I hope you can help me further.
> 
OK. This helps a little. Although the drive is seen by the SCSI
controller and reports it to be ID 2, the kernel is not seeing the
drive. You may only need to load the module for the SCSI tape subsystem
as follows:

modprobe st (I believe is the correct module)
tail /var/log/messages  -or-
dmesg

should show the tape drive as being recognized by the kernel.

Try that and let us know the results.

-- 
Ken Schneider
unix user since 1989
linux user since 1994
SuSE user since 1998