On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 14:25 -0800, Tom Haws wrote: > I'm having problems adding an Exabyte Magnum LTO-2 tape device to my RHL > 9 machine. I know that's a different OS, so thius question should go in > the shrike lists, but it's close enough to Fedora that I thought I might > get some answers here, and the shrike lists are just about dead now. > Red Hat announced the end of RHL 9 2 months after I installed a > production server on it... arrrghh... > > Anyway, after I add the device, it shows up fine in /proc/scsi/sci, and > I can write to it, but it is extremely slow. I got about 30MB written > in 5 minutes! Has anyone else had any experience with LTO-2 devices on > Fedora or RHL 9 systems, and is there anything I can do to recreate > device files or anything to speed it up? > > Also, do you know if I do a "mknod -m 666 /dev/st0 c 9 0" with the tape > drive hooked up, does it do anything different than if there wasn't one > installed? Like read the status bits on the drive to tell what it's > capabilities are? Have you tried their LTO Tool? ftp://ftp.exabyte.com/pub//tools/lto/ltoTool_Linux_V4.34_readme.txt
