On Friday 16 January 2004 12:49 am, Josh Trutwin wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:49:03 -0600 > > Ben Maas <bmaas at open-techsys.com> wrote: > > First, which model and kernel version are you currently using? There > > were some nasty (think system lock up) bugs on some models up until about > > kernel v2.4.22. I think they were all IDE models (I had trouble with the > > "Hornet" 20/40 drive). > > SuSE 8.1 with stock 2.4.19 kernel. The drive is a Seagate TapeStor > 8GB/20GB. It's on SCSI, id no 5 I think. Might want to try a kernel >=2.4.22, thats when the Traven fixes went in. However I don't remember that particular drive being mentioned. > > > Also, make sure your are writeing to the /dev/st? (rewinding) or /dev/nt? > > (non-rewinding) devices, where "?" is a number, probably zero. If you > > don't see either of those you don't have all the right drivers. Make > > sure you have SCSI, SCSI "generic" devices, and SCSI Tape devices. > > If memory serves, last time I tried it I used /dev/st0 That should be right. Does /dev/st0 exist? (type "ls -ld /dev/st0") You can also try looking the through the stuff in /proc/scsi (or /proc/bus/scsi) and see whether it sees the device or not and what driver its trying to use. > > Thanks, > > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Maas - Technology Architect Open Technology Systems, LLC ----------------------------------------------------------- eMail: bmaas at open-techsys.com Web: http://www.open-techsys.com Phone: 952.448.3121 Fax: 952.448.4944 Cell: 612.743.3674 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list