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> First, check your dmesg log for the device being used for the tape > drive? I'm thinking maybe they don't have a SCSI tape driver being > loaded to create the device. > Do a lsmod and look for the st module. Ok, the st module is loaded. I have tried unloading and reloading it- nthis works fine. However, /dev/st0 is not created. After reboot, I have to create /dev/st0 manually again since it was not created during the boot process. Now created it, the backup using tar is running fine. But why did /dev/st0 not get created. dmesg shows (extract): ... SCSI subsystem initialized ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs ... Vendor: HP Model: C7438A Rev: V312 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 target0:0:3: Beginning Domain Validation WIDTH IS 1 (scsi0:A:3): 6.600MB/s transfers (16bit) target0:0:3: Domain Validation skipping write tests (scsi0:A:3): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) target0:0:3: Ending Domain Validation st: Version 20050312, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA 1048575 ... st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. And lsmod shows: ... st 42593 2 ... aic7xxx 161141 1 scsi_transport_spi 23105 1 aic7xxx sd_mod 22721 0 scsi_mod 135561 4 st,aic7xxx,scsi_transport_spi,sd_mod Any ideas why the node is not being created? Many thanks. Stuart -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Proprietor) Linux Specialist (01953) 601294 (07778) 383739 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ---------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please email postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx immediately. You should not copy or use this email or attachments for any purpose nor disclose their contents to any other person. NO BINDING CONTRACT WILL RESULT FROM THIS E-MAIL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS A WRITTEN DOCUMENT IS SIGNED ON BEHALF OF LinuSoft. LinuSoft cannot accept any responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of this message as it has been transmitted over public networks. ************************************************************************* |
