[arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

[Jan de Groot]

On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 20:11 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
> 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?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open

The LTO-120 is an LTO4 drive, storing 800GB native, sold as 1.6TB
compressed.