[TriLUG] RH9 tape device?

[Glenn Hennessee]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:

> doggone if I can determine what RH9 has called my Quantum DLT7000 SCSI
> tape drive...
>
> Just know it's not /dev/nst0. (mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind does nothing).
>
> Any ideas?
>
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Look at dmesg. The tape device should be listed there as a device it found
and it will give the name of the device. Mine tape drive is mt0. I
couldn't easily find anything else on this.

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