On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 23:24 +0330, Mehdi Sarmadi wrote: > > I do have problem using Linux with an external HP tape drive. The > server platform is also an HP Server; the server is an HP ML350 G4, > and the Tape drive is a HP Storage Works Ultrium 448 - 1U > Rack-mountable. > Hi, We used to run tape decks on all our HP servers via the cciss scsi controller, but now only have one. For them we had to 'engage' the tape deck before it became visible to the system. We modified the /etc/rc.local file so that this would occur at each system boot. Below is the script we used for this, you may well need to do something similar: test -f /proc/driver/cciss/cciss2 && \ echo 'engage scsi' >/proc/driver/cciss/cciss2 2>/dev/null John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos