Adding a SCSI controller and SCSI Tape drive

Jeffrey Ross jeff at bubble.org
Wed Nov 8 22:11:05 UTC 2006


Ok, just tried another tape drive same deal, when I attempt to access the
drive with "mt -f /dev/st0 stat" the command hangs, I'm unable to kill the
process either (same as before)

Jeff


> You are right, its "st" and it shows up
> scsi_transport_spi     25281  1 aic7xxx
> scsi_mod              134761  6
> sd_mod,usb_storage,st,sg,aic7xxx,scsi_transport_spi
>
>
> also dmesg shows the following entries:
> scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0
>         <Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter>
>         aic7870: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs
>
>   Vendor: Quantum   Model: DLT4000 CPQ DRV   Rev: D473
>   Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>  target0:0:6: Beginning Domain Validation
>  target0:0:6: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100 ns, offset 15)
>  target0:0:6: Domain Validation skipping write tests
>  target0:0:6: Ending Domain Validation
>
> and then further down:
>
>
> scsi 0:0:6:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 1
> st: Version 20050830, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
> st 0:0:6:0: Attached scsi tape st0
> st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B)
>
>
> So the system definitely sees the controller and tape drive, just any IO
> to it hangs.  I'm wondering, do I have a good drive?
>
>
>
>> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 16:18:10 -0500,
>>   Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> When I send any commands to /dev/st0 the application just sits there, a
>>> "mt -f /dev/st0 stat" just hangs
>>>
>>> lsmod does not show the "mt" device, should it be there and if so, how
>>> do
>>> I load it?
>>
>> I have a dat tape on a scsi controller on an fc5 system and I don't see
>> an 'mt' module loaded using lsmod.
>>
>
>





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