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>Drivers for SCSI/DAT Tape Drives</H3>
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<p><strong>From Lammon, Dave on Thu, 20 Jan 2000
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Hi,
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<br>We are using a Compaq Proliant to do some of our DNS work since NT will
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not support the way our reverse delegation is done.
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I'm trying to use a shareware tape backup program and the compaq has a
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compaq DAT on a scsi channel.
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I'm sort of new with Linux and I prbably dont have device support
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for the tape drive. Do I use ftape or is there another module to
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use for this. I will try compiling a new kernel and see what
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options are there. I am using Redhat 6x.
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<P><STRONG>
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Any help would be apreciated.
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<P><STRONG>
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Thanks
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<br>Dave Lammon
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<br>Network Administrator
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There should be no special work required to use a
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SCSI tape drive under Linux. You access those through
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the st driver (the <TT>/dev/st0</TT> node for the first drive
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and, <TT>/dev/st1</TT>, etc for other drives).
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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If this is an autochanger you might want to get the
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'<tt>mtx</tt>' utility which can be found at its author's web site:
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<BLOCKQUOTE><DL><DT>
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Dandelion Digital's Linux Home Page
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<DD><A HREF="http://www.dandelion.com/Linux"
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>http://www.dandelion.com/Linux</A>
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</DL></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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... this is like the '<tt>mt</tt>' command but it adds support
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for commands like: "next", "previous", etc (and the
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<TT>ioctl()</TT>'s to go with them).
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If you can't access your tape drive, try loading the
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<tt>st.o</tt> module. If you've built your own kernel for this
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system, go back into your kernel sources, re-run the
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make menuconfig (or make xconfigure, or whatever you
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like) and make sure that you have the SCSI tape support
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compiled in available as a module.
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Note that using auto-loading support for the tape modules
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has been a problem in the past. I highly recommend that
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you manually load and unload your <tt>st.o</tt> driver (or build
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it statically into your kernel). The problem is that an
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autoloaded <tt>st.o</tt> might get auto-unloaded at an inopportune
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time (when there's been enough inactivity on the driver.
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In those cases, when the driver is re-loaded it will
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reset the drive and rewind the tape. This could be bad
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if you intended to APPEND new datasets to an existing
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tape.
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<p><strong>From Dave Lammon on Fri, 21 Jan 2000
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Thank You,
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<br>this is excellent help, far more than I expected.
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I did manage to get the DAT to work with the tape software. I used
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<TT>/dev/st0</TT> and it looks like its working.
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I greatly appreciate the help.
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