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timm

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From: Wisconsin

Registered: 2004-02-25

Posts: 417

Sony SDT-9000 scsi tape drive under udev

I've installed Arch .7 and have updated the system with pacman.  I set up the system to use udev. 

I have an Adaptec AHA-7850 scsi card with a Sony SDT-9000 tape drive attached as the only scsi device.

When I check out /dev, there is an sg0 device, but no tape, st0, nst0, etc.  dmesg shows the tape drive identified at boot, and cat /proc/scsi/scsi also shows it.

I can't use mt on the sg0 device, and I'm not sure if that is my controller or my tape drive, and if the tape drive, how I gain access to it.

Thanks in advance.

timm

Member

From: Wisconsin

Registered: 2004-02-25

Posts: 417

Re: Sony SDT-9000 scsi tape drive under udev

Ok, I figured it out.  I was using kernel26-scsi, but didn't realize I still needed to load the scsi tape module (st) into rc.conf.  Did that, now it works.