[arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

[Madhurya Kakati]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Vitor Garcia
<vitorlopesgarcia at gmail.com> 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?