On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Mike Glaser wrote: > I installed the SCSI card into a Mandrake 7.0 system I am going to use for > testing purposes. Kudzu found the new hardware and correctly identified it > and configured it. I then rebooted with the internal drive connected to the > SCSI card and the system booted normally without any mention of new > hardware. I am not sure if it should have 'discovered' the drive or not. > Well, I get the following from dmesg on my system. If the hardware isn't detected at bootup, I imagine you may be in for a rough ride. You've included all the SCSI stuff you need in your kernel, right? (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: DEC Model: DLT2000 Rev: 830A Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Question: How do I communicate with this tape drive? It is the only SCSI > device in the system and I have no experience with SCSI devices. Try something like 'mt -f /dev/nst0 offline' and see if the tape drive unloads the tape. Other than the mt command, I've not communicated directly .. I've let Amanda do all that. > > I need to figure out how to mount it somehow so I can use dd, cpio, tar, etc. to > write to it. Would Amanda be a good tool to use? > > If anyone could point me to some how-tos or web sites that could help I would > appreciate it. I may pick up the O'Reilly book 'Unix Backup and Recovery' in > the next day or two - I think that it could be valuable considering my level of > expertise at the moment. > Yes, get O'Reilly. It has a whole chapter devoted to Amanda. -- John Hawley // Network Admin Billy Graham Evang. Assoc. 612.335.1334 jhawley at bgea.org