Topic: Initio 9100 and Exabyte 8505XL

[Ari]

Does anyone have any insight as to how to get these working with the backup-to-tape feature of e-smith server v4.11?

It keeps telling me there's no tape in the drive. There is, of course, a brand new tape in the drive.

If I go to the shell and look, it's not recognizing /dev/nst0 - i.e. non-existent.

Any help would be, as always, gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,
Ari

[Darrell May]

Ari wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any insight as to how to get these working
> with the backup-to-tape feature of e-smith server v4.11?
>
> It keeps telling me there's no tape in the drive. There is,
> of course, a brand new tape in the drive.
>
> If I go to the shell and look, it's not recognizing /dev/nst0
> - i.e. non-existent.
>
> Any help would be, as always, gratefully appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ari

Are you using the Initio 9100 for your hard drives?  Basically you need to load the 'initio' (Initio 9100) and 'st' (scsi tape) modules.

Darrell