TapeStor <Solved>

[Ted Ozolins]

Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> Ted Ozolins wrote:
>
>> Definitely solved, Have done a system backup successfully and 
>> verified. I hadn't enabled scsi tape support in the kernel. Even 
>> though its an ATAPI device being accessed via scsi emulation required 
>> scsi tape support.
>
>
> Is that still true in the 2.6 kernels?
>
>     -- Alma
> _______________________________________________
>
I'm running 2.6.8-gentoo-r1

To start with I enables ATAPI tape, that created /dev/ht0 but mt -f 
/def/ht0 rewind gave a "no device or address" error. After hours of 
googling I found suggestions that some of these drives would run with 
scsi emulation. I then compiled scsi emulation into the kernel only to 
get "operation not permitted."  Going over the .config file 
(/usr/src/linux/.config) I decided to try enabling scsi tape support. 
This created in /dev st0, st0a, st0l st0m which are links to mt, mta, 
mtl and mtm in /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0. Removing scsi 
emulation or scsi tape renders the tape drive inoperable. So for this 
tape drive, it would seem true in 2.6 kernel.

-- 
Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C