Dear All,
Thank you very much for the help on the exabyte 8200. I found the
device in /proc/scsi/scsi. Unfortunately, I think the device itself is
faulty.
Cheers,
Mahar
On 03-31-2002 11:43 pm, Thorsten Kranzkowski <dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 09:32:47PM +0800, mlagmay@nigs.upd.edu.ph
wrote:
> > dear thorsten and franco,
> >
> > thank you for your replies. i did exactly the commands that your
wrote
> > but it still doesn\'t read the tape. the exb 2000 drive just blinks
and the
>
> If it blinks the exabyte is almost certainly correctly configured.
>
> > command prompt shows up at once on the monitor. is there any way by
which
>
> the tape is probably empty?
>
> > i can find out if the drive has been recongized. kudzu says that it
did
> > and it configured the device but are there other ways to verify
this?
>
> As sombody else already mentioned: cat /proc/scsi/scsi shows a list
of
> all detected scsi devices - there should be an entry for your
exabyte.
>
> Now once again (this time in exact chronological order):
>
>
> 1) insert an empty tape into the exabyte
>
> 2) tar cvf /dev/nst0 /bin # this writes to the tape
>
> 3) mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind # rewind it
>
> 4) tar tvf /dev/nst0 # now see the tape\'s contents
>
>
> You should probably consult your redhat manual about the usage of
tapes or
> find a newbee mailing list.
>
> Bye,
> Thorsten
>
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