[lug] tar has me mired in it...

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:24:32PM -0600, Michael Wegener wrote:
>I am trying to do a "simple backup" using a Seagate DDS-3 DAT drive.
>However, I cannot dump anything to any device that one would think would
>be a tape (ftape, tape-d, st0, etc. errMsg: "Cannot open: no such

Do you have the "st" driver loaded?  Try doing "modprobe st".  If you
built your own kernel, you'll have to go back in and make sure you've
got st enabled.

You can tell if you have it in your kernel by looking at /proc/ksyms.  For
example, the following shows a session where I don't have it loaded, I
load it and then the symbols show up:

   [root at backup /proc]# grep '\[st\]' /proc/ksyms
   [root at backup /proc]# insmod st
   Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/st.o
   [root at backup /proc]# grep '\[st\]' /proc/ksyms
   c48740c0 st_template    [st]
   c48741f4 __insmod_st_S.bss_L40  [st]
   c48732e0 __insmod_st_S.rodata_L3243     [st]
   c486e054 __insmod_st_S.text_L20782      [st]
   c486e000 __insmod_st_O/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/st.o_M39A2E918_V131600       [st]
   c4874080 __insmod_st_S.data_L192        [st]
   [root at backup /proc]# 

Sean
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