newbe wants to backup to tape drive

[Kai Makisara]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, J. van Eck (Systeembeheer) wrote:

> hello, I have a Archive Python SCSI Datstreamer installed on my computer, and Suse 8.1 has recocqnized it. But I seem not to be able to make a backup.
> When I try to use the mt-command, Suse returns the message "NO SUCH DEVICE". The command I use is : "mt -f /dev/st0 status"
>
You don't have the scsi tape driver (st) loaded. If you do 'modprobe st'
as root, you should be able to use the device /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0.
The SuSE system should be able to load the st driver automatically but,
for some reason, that does not happen.

	Kai