No EXABYTE 8505 on 2.6 kernels
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Tue Aug 24 17:33:54 UTC 2004
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Nathan Joyes wrote:
> John:
>
> > I just upgraded my Redhat 9 with 2.4 kernel to FC2 with 2.6 kernel and
> > now I can no longer acces my EXABYTE 8505 tape drive.
> > mt stat gives this error:
> > [root at www john]# mt stat
> > /dev/tape: No such device or address
>
>
> mt uses /dev/tape rather than the actual device, the symbolic link may have
> been deleted when you
> upgraded, relink and you should be there.
By default, that is so. If the Exabyte is the only tape drive, though,
you should be able to use mt -f /dev/st0 stat.
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