Halo

I have DL380 with HP SmartArray 5i controller (2disks + DAT). I was install
slackware 9.1 on this server
(cciss driver). I don't know how can I install and use streamer.

Thank you
Tom from Poland

PS. Sorry for my english

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:38:21 +0200, "Tomasz Graliñski"
<balbina@ruda-sl.pl> wrote:

>Halo
>
>I have DL380 with HP SmartArray 5i controller (2disks + DAT). I was install
>slackware 9.1 on this server
>(cciss driver). I don't know how can I install and use streamer.
>
>Thank you
>Tom from Poland
>
>PS. Sorry for my english
>

I'm assuming you installed Slack while the tape drive was attached to
the controller, so try

dmesg | grep "scsi tape"

This should give you a line that indicates whether the tape drive was
found or not (something like "Attached scsi tape st0 at..."). If so,
then try

tar cvf /dev/st0 /etc ==> where st0 matches the device from the
dmesg output above

This should place the contents of the /etc directory on the tape. If
not, then post whatever error messages you receive.


Scott McMillan

> I'm assuming you installed Slack while the tape drive was attached to
> the controller, so try
>
> dmesg | grep "scsi tape"

No entry after this command :-(

> This should give you a line that indicates whether the tape drive was
> found or not (something like "Attached scsi tape st0 at..."). If so,
> then try
>
> tar cvf /dev/st0 /etc ==> where st0 matches the device from the
> dmesg output above

tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: No such device
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Tom from PL

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:07:19 +0200, "Tomasz Gralinski"
<balbina@ruda-sl.pl> wrote:

>> I'm assuming you installed Slack while the tape drive was attached to
>> the controller, so try
>>
>> dmesg | grep "scsi tape"
>
>No entry after this command :-(
>
>> This should give you a line that indicates whether the tape drive was
>> found or not (something like "Attached scsi tape st0 at..."). If so,
>> then try
>>
>> tar cvf /dev/st0 /etc ==> where st0 matches the device from the
>> dmesg output above
>
>tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: No such device
>tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
>Tom from PL
>

Then you probably need to add SCSI tape support into your kernel.

1) cd /usr/src/linux
2) make menuconfig
- arrow down to SCSI Support
- select SCSI tape support

3) Recompile your kernel


Scott McMillan

Scott McMillan <smcmillan@twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> Then you probably need to add SCSI tape support into your kernel.

Or just simply:
modprobe <your_scsi_controller> and
modprobe st

For instance here (Adaptec 29160 controller) I need "modprobe aic7xxx"
(in the newest kernels we built it into the kernel as we're always
using aic7xxx compatible adaptors anyway).
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