On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 08:49 +0200, Vitor Garcia 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. Please paste your dmesg output somewhere. The SCSI controller that connects the drive is probably not even recognized.