On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 20:11 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Vitor Garcia > <vitorlopesgarcia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Good morning. > > > > I have been trying to my Dell LTO-120 SCSI Tape Drive on Arch without > > success. > > > > I have tried to run $ modprobe st, but still, I have no /dev/st0 and > > neither /dev/nst0. dmesg | grep -i tape shows nothing too. > > > > Is there anything I'm missing here? Dell's user manual says that the > > drive should work out of the box on linux. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Vitor > > > > Offtopic: How much does one tape store? How many MBs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open The LTO-120 is an LTO4 drive, storing 800GB native, sold as 1.6TB compressed.
