Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 01 April 2005 15:07, Leen de Braal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have updated a suse8 server to 9.2 (reinstalled, and put data and users
> back on).
> I am having trouble to get a IDE-tapedrive recognised and working.
> This is a OnStream ADR-drive, it is hdd and seen at boot:
>
> 7>Probing IDE interface ide0...
> <4>hda: CRD-8400B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> <7>Probing IDE interface ide1...
> <7>ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !
> <4>hdd: OnStream DI-30, ATAPI TAPE drive
> <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>
> On suse8 I can remember I did it with ide-scsi module. In grub I appended
> hdd=ide-scsi.
> Arkeia light is installed for backup, and if I try to get to the tape, I
> see this in /var/log/messages:
>
> Apr  1 14:08:34 linux kernel: osst :I: Tape driver with OnStream support
> version
>  0.99.1
> Apr  1 14:08:34 linux kernel: osst :I: $Id: osst.c,v 1.70 2003/12/23
> 14:22:12 wr
> iede Exp $
>
> Still, I am not able to see tapes.
> mt -f status /dev/osst0 gives: mt: invalid tape operation `/dev/osst0'
>
> lsmod shows no ide_scsi module, and I cannot find anything like ide_scsi
> on the machine too.
> How do I get this baby working in SuSE9.2??

First of all, you have the command backwards. -f expects a tape device, and 
'status' isn't a device :)

Have you tried simply

mt -f /dev/hdd status

?