Re: [flexbackup-help] Problem with tape drive

[Charlie B. <cha...@e-...>]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Paul Murphy wrote:

> I tried what you mentioned, and...
> 
> /dev/osst0 does exist, but if I try something like
> 
> mt -f /dev/osst0 setblk 0
> 
> I get
> 
> mt: /dev/osst0: no such device
> 
> Which seems strange (to me anyway))...

You will need to do:

modprobe ide-scsi
modprobe osst

before the mt command. 

You can get around that by adding (IIRC):

alias char-major-206 osst
add below osst ide-scsi

to /etc/modules.conf.

> Just to report the detail, here's the ls -l for /dev/*st0
> 
> crw-rw---- 1 roor root 9, 128 Oct 26 2002 /dev/nst0
> crw-r--r-- 1 roor root 206, 0 Oct 26 2002 /dev/osst0
> crw-rw---- 1 roor root 9, 0 Oct 26 2002 /dev/st0

Stupid, eh? You'll need to do:

mkdir /dev/nosst0 c 206 128

And:

mkdir /dev/nosst1 c 206 129

if you have a second tape drive (etc). But why anyone would buy a *second* 
Onstream tape drive is beyond me :-)


--
Charlie