Adding a tape drive to Red Hat 7

[ME]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Catherine de la Cruz wrote:
> At 01:07 AM 3/16/2001 +0000, E Frank Ball <frankb at efball.com> wrote:
> >} I am a complete novice with Linux.  I have a dual-boot machine with a 
> >Seagate
> >} Scorpion DAT drive running on an Adaptec SCSI card.  It works fine in 
> >Windoze;
> >} the same machine and card also work in our old SCO System V 
> >machines.  How do
> >} I get RH to recognize it?  Thanks.
> >There are a pile of different Adaptec SCSI drivers (kernel modules).
> >Which card do you have?
> 
> The model is Adaptec 2910C - though the windoze recognizes is as part of 
> the 7800 family.  Does that help?

What happens when you (as root) do:

# modprobe aic7xxx
(then assuming no errors)
# modprobe st
(and maybe)
# modprobe sg

If
# lsmod
shows the aic7xxx moduless loaded, but no "st" module try just loading the
"st" module. Then see if you can address the tape device with mt and
specify the device as st0.

("man mt" may be helpful for ejecting tapes, rewinding tapes and talking
to the tape device if it is recognized by the OS.) If mt works and
controlls it, then tar or another tape archive tool can help you to store
files onto tape.