From: Sean McGrath (sean at domain hdl.ie)
Date: Thu 27 May 1999 - 16:31:48 IST
Peter Flynn wrote:
>
> I have a new Dell OptiPlex with a Travan tape drive which takes
> 8Gb tapes (one tape supplied, how nice of them :-)
>
> a. How do I find out what /dev is assigned to this device?
if its the only tape, then it should be /dev/st0
assuming a scsi tape.
>
> b. Do I even know if RH 5.2 spotted it during install? All
> the recognition stuff that flashes past at boot time is
> apparently not logged anywhere (ie there's no /var/log/boot.log)
try the command dmesg
>
> c. If it didn't get recognised, has anyone any suggestions for
> drivers?
standard scsi tapes work fine. I've three exabytes hanging off a
linux box
here, working fine no probs at all. (using bru as backup.)
>
> ///Peter, in need of a backup :-)
>
Sean.
.
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