HP C7401A - SureStore Ultrium 230 Tape Drive Technical Reference Manual page 22

22 Linux
The lines of interest here are:
This is the tape driver. Its presence in the output of the
st
command shows that the tape driver is loaded.
This is a SCSI chipset driver for the LSI Logic family of HBAs
ncr53c8xx
(amongst others).
This is a SCSI chipset driver for the Adaptec 7xxx chipset
aix7xxx
family (such as Adaptec 29160LP).
Latest SCSI controller drivers for Linux will be available from the
manufacturer's web site.
In order to communicate with a tape device, the operating system needs to
have drivers for the tape and the underlying transport mechanism (the host
bus adaptor) loaded. Ensure that both are available as either loadable
modules (for example, usable with
statically built into your kernel.
In order to add drivers to the statically built kernel you need the
Note
Linux source code available on disk and knowledge of how to
use the kernel building tools that ship with various Linux
distributions. This should not be attempted by novice users.
In order to determine if the drive has been detected by the tape driver at
module load time, execute:
dmesg | grep "st"
This should find a number of lines. One should look like:
Detected SCSI tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
To load the tape driver module if it is not loaded as above, execute:
insmod st
to load it. This should happen naturally if your system is rebooted after
attaching the drive.
When the driver module has been added, a list of tape device files will be
ST
created automatically. They reside in the
syntax:
/dev/stp or dev/nstp
where:
is the instance number of the device file. (If only one drive is
p
connected to the system, this will be 0.)
indicates that this is a no-rewind driver.
n
and visible with
insmod
directory and have the
/dev/
lsmod
) or are
lsmod