[arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

[Jan de Groot]

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.