Tape device name

Jon Dixon dixon.jon at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 07:59:17 UTC 2006


stan wrote:
> I've got a Sun Ultra 40 (Dual dual core Opteron's). I've added an Adaptec
> SCSI card in one of teh PCI' slot's, amd conected a HP DLT80 drive to it
> at SCSI address 4.
> 
> I then booted it off of a Ubunto 5.10 CD. I can't seem to fidn the device
> for the tape drive. How, can I find what device it is?
> 

Hi Stan

Running dmesg from a terminal and looking for scsi messages may give
some clues.

I've not tried tape myself under Ubuntu, but I'd certainly expect it to
give out messages as with any other attached device.

HTH,

Jon




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