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Title: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: gw.allan on February 28, 2010, 12:17:35 PM: Hi,
I recently purchased a SCSI card and have a tape drive. I wish to put them into the server and use the tape drive for backups. How can I install both these without having to do a clean install of SME Server? (I already have it installed and have had it running for a number of months now).
Thanks
Title: Re: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: Stefano on February 28, 2010, 12:44:20 PM: hi

- shut down your server
- plug in your scsi card (is it supported?)
- install your tape drive
- start your server
- login on console as root and give
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mt -f /dev/st0 status
it should work
Title: Re: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: gw.allan on February 28, 2010, 12:52:02 PM: Hi,
How do I go into the console?
Thanks
Title: Re: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: gw.allan on February 28, 2010, 12:56:02 PM: Also - http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/scsi/2940/AHA-2940UW/ (http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/scsi/2940/AHA-2940UW/) is the link to the SCSI card I'v got.
Title: Re: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: Stefano on February 28, 2010, 01:14:02 PM: Quote from: gw.allan on February 28, 2010, 12:52:02 PM
Hi,
How do I go into the console?
Thanks

at login prompt, enter "root", hit [return], enter admin/root password, hit [return]
Title: Re: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: CharlieBrady on February 28, 2010, 04:52:08 PM: Quote from: Stefano on February 28, 2010, 12:44:20 PM
hi

- shut down your server
- plug in your scsi card (is it supported?)
- install your tape drive
- start your server
- login on console as root and give
Code: [Select]
mt -f /dev/st0 status
it should work

That may not be sufficient.

If it doesn't work, then try:

modprobe -v aic7xxx
mt -f /dev/st0 status

If that works better, then add this line to /etc/modprobe.conf:

alias scsi_hostadapterX aic7xxx

In place of X, put 0, 1, 2, ... etc - whichever does not already appear in the file /etc/modprobe.conf.
Title: Re: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: Stefano on February 28, 2010, 04:56:34 PM: ok charlie

thinking about how did I solve such a problems month ago, I just remember I gave
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kudzu
at console.. and all is working fine since then..

is it wrong? thank you
Title: Re: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: CharlieBrady on February 28, 2010, 05:00:52 PM: Quote from: Stefano on February 28, 2010, 04:56:34 PM
ok charlie

thinking about how did I solve such a problems month ago, I just remember I gave
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kudzu
at console.. and all is working fine since then..

is it wrong? thank you

Running kudzu can cause problems (e.g. if you have more than two NICs). But it will add modprobe.conf aliases for newly detected scsi adapters, as you have discovered. I wouldn't recommend using it.
Title: Re: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: Stefano on February 28, 2010, 05:02:14 PM: thank you
Title: Re: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: heidy12 on January 08, 2011, 06:04:05 AM: Hi,
How do I go into the console?
Thanks
Title: Re: Installation of Tape Drive with SCSI Card?
Post by: Stefano on January 08, 2011, 09:49:49 AM: Quote from: heidy12 on January 08, 2011, 06:04:05 AM
Hi,
How do I go into the console?
Thanks

log in as root

please take some time to read the documentation and search the forums, thank you