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

["Kevin Thomson" <webservices@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks very ver very, did I say very, much Byron, I'm installing it now,
I'll let the group know how it turns out as far as the pyshical install on
the drive goes.

Thanks Again, Hope it all works.

- Kevin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Byron Servies [mailto:bservies@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 4:17 PM
To: webservices@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Onstream Tape Drives & Cobalt Qube 3?


Kevin Thomson wrote:


> 	4. At the command prompt, type : mt -f /dev/st0 status. This should
display
> information about the tape drive. If this does not occur, 	re-check your
> set-up.
>
> 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.

They are correct: mt does stand for "magnetic tape."  Oddly, though, it is
not
included with the Qube3's software load. It should be.

You can get a copy at:

ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/linux/sunsite/system/backup/

look for mt-st-0.5b.tar.gz; I downloaded it and it compiled and installed
fine on my qube3.  Unfortunately, I don't have a tape drive handy to hook up
and test.

Also look in dmesg after you boot.  The kernel should detect the tape and
assign
/dev/st?? numbers in order.  It will also load the st module, which you
should be
able to see if you run lsmod or cat /proc/modules.

HTH,

Byron

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