Please check the output of

cat /proc/devices

Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 9 st 10 misc 21 sg 36 netlink 108 ppp 128 ptm 136 pts 162 raw 226 drm Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 7 loop 8 sd 65 sd 66 sd

maybe you can send the output the list or send it offline.

If you see st in the list of devices then go searching for it in dmesg

dmesg | grep -i st st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Not Ready st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Not Ready st0: Error on write filemark. st0: Error with sense data: Curr

Once you detect that st0 is the correct device go for

# mt -f /dev/st0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (50000): DR_OPEN IM_REP_EN

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi

might also prove useful.

bye rgds biju

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