Re: [cobalt-developers] Onstream Tape Drives & Cobalt Qube 3?

["Dale P. Smith" <dsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Thomson wrote:
> At first I thought "great now I can continue working on the backup software"
> till I actualy tried "mt -f /dev/st0 status" through telnet and get a
> "command not found" responce for "mt".  So I'm thinking, okay, maybe they
> meant Mount, or mnt, no go there either as far as getting the device to
> work.  Anyways, I call Onstream, The tech support people swear up and down
> that the mt command stands for magnetic tape drive and its part of the st
> driver, stating that if that command isn't found that its a fault of the
> distrobution and I need to get an updated source of the kernel and
> recompile.
> 
> So, any ideas/insight into this? I did a little poking around and the "st
> driver" is present in the kernel source on the Qube 3 but I'm not sure
> whetehr it is modularized in the compiled kernel or even if its installed in
> the current configuration.  If it is a matter of recompiling the kernel
> could someone point out a good tutorial for this proccess that works on the
> cobalt procduct(s)?

I don't the the qube comes with the mag tape tools.  I think I had to
install and rpm I got from somewhere on Cobalt's ftp server.

I dropped a scsi card in our Qube 2 and hooked a tape up to it.  Was
working fine.

-Dale
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