Beldon on Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:50:22 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] SCSI tape question


On Saturday 10 March 2001 12:04, you wrote:
> On 10 Mar 2001 11:34:29 -0500, Beldon wrote:
> > I've been putting together this old 486 box to use as a backup server.  
I've 
> > got the SCSI card to work, but I have no idea how to tell if the tape 
drive 
> > itself is being seen.  
> 
> 
> Try "cdrecord --scanbus" (as root or sudo); it will list all SCSI
> devices found, and their ID numbers. This will tell you if it's seen.
> Also, look in syslog, where it loads up your SCSI adapter ... usually,
> it shows all devices found that are attached to said SCSI adapter.

"cdrecord: command not found"

I don't have any SCSI CD or disk drives-- tape only.  This utility you 
mention looks like it's for a CD device.  Since CD's are block devices, would 
this even work if I had it?

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