SCSI tape install

[marcb at islc.net (Martin Mail)]

Please send this message to Matthew Szulik at Red Hat
Thanks Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Rutledge <hugh at descartes.intlpress.com>
To: discuss at tarnhelm.blu.org <discuss at tarnhelm.blu.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 2:07 PM
Subject: SCSI tape install


>Please don't talk to me about Red Hat.  I just got the following message
>back from them.  All very nice but it refers to a non-existent location on
>the system fresh-installed from their 5.2 operating system disk.
>
>On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:10:42PM -0500, support-daemon at redhat.com wrote:
>> State the installation problem:  We cannot find the appropriate driver
>> for a Seagate Scorpion-24 DAT drive (model# STD224000N-SB).
>> The drive is the only device on a SCSI bus, and is recognized
>> during startup.  The file /proc/scsi/scsi contains:
>> 
>> Attached devices: 
>> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
>>   Vendor: ARCHIVE  Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 7270
>>   Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> 
>> This is the DAT drive we are looking to use.  How do we access it?
>> 
>
>
>        The device it's self should show up in /dev/sd0 and you
>should be able to access it using the `mt` and `tar` commands. 
>
>   This is a configuration and administrative issue and doesnt
>fall under the installation support we can provide.
>
>You might also be able to find help in the Red Hat Linux users' mailing
>list.
>You can browse or search the redhat-list archives from our website:
>
>
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