On Sun, 30 May 2010 08:17:27 -0400
masker <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > 
> > What is this lin-tape you speak of?
> > 
> > If your Linux kernel is properly configured (i.e, SCSI HBA support, SCSI
> > tape support, and the PERC6 low-level SCSI driver enabled), it should
> > Just Work.  If those aren't compiled into your kernel, see if you have
> > them present as modules.
> > 
> 
> 
> The "lin-tape" or "lin_tape" means the driver name of IBM ULTRIUM-HH5 tape 
> drive.
> I've download the lin_tape-1.38.0-1.src.rpm from IBM website. But I can't 
> compile it in Debian 5.0.4.
> The SAS HBA driver is "mpt2sas", it was installed in my system, successfully. 
> Then I could use "mt -f /dev/st0 status", but I got error message like "read 
> error.. " if I type " mt -f /dev/st0 tell". 
> Under this situation , it could write by "tar" command, but show "write 
> error..." after several hours.
> If I connect the tape drive to a machine of CentOS with right driver, it show 
> "/dev/IBMtape0" as the device name, and I could have right answer by "mt -f 
> /dev/IBMtape0 tell"
> 
> So. I need some help. If anyone have any suggestion to help me install the 
> tape in Debian OS?
> 

It should "just work" without using the special driver.  My LTO drives are IBM 
and my library is IBM and I don't use any special driver, just the 'st' kernel 
module or whatever its official name is.

What is your output of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' or check dmesg for relevant 
messages or also try the 'tapeinfo' command on the various sg devices.  


-- 
Alex Chekholko   chekh AT genomics.upenn DOT edu 

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