> -----Original Message-----
> From: bacula-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> [mailto:bacula-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net] On Behalf
> Of Ryan Novosielski
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:42 PM
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Running tapeinfo - INQUIRY
> Command Failed message?
>
> >  Are there other tools I can use to confirm if anything is
> accessing the drive?
>
> Oh, I'm sorry, I misread that! BTW, are you running Linux?
> I've heard on
>  Linux you may need to load the SCSI generic kernel module and run the
> program against the generic device name (/dev/sg0, etc.). I have only
> ever run the storage daemon on Solaris where this is not necessary.

 Ahh, yes, my mistake for not reading the documentation thoroughly enough! 
Tapeinfo does indeed needs to be run through the general device, /dev/sg1 in my 
case

# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'IBM     '
Product ID: 'HH LTO Gen 3    '
Revision: '73P8'
Attached Changer: No
SerialNumber: '1020008840'
MinBlock:1
MaxBlock:16777215
SCSI ID: 1
SCSI LUN: 0
Ready: yes
BufferedMode: yes
Medium Type: 0x38
Density Code: 0x44
BlockSize: 0
DataCompEnabled: yes
DataCompCapable: yes
DataDeCompEnabled: yes
CompType: 0x1
DeCompType: 0x1
BOP: yes
Block Position: 0

 Thanks for the tip :)

 Cheers,
 Dagan


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