Backup : Adaptec AHA-2944UW / AIC-7884U SCSI adapter & HP Q1523A tape reader

[L.M.J]

Hi,

  I'm new in SCSI adapter and backup stuff. For my SOHO needs, I want to setup backup on tape. A friend gave
  me 3 things to put in my regular x86 PC running Ubuntu Server 8.10 x86_64 / 2.6.27-16 : 
   - a PCI SCSI Adaptec AHA-2944UW / AIC-7884U SCSI adapter [1]
   - a SCSI cable (I guess it works fine)
   - a HP StorageWorks DAT 72e tape drive [2]

  I've plugged the PCI card in my PC, connected the cable, power on the tape drive and booted my linux. After
  a long SCSI scan, grub came, ubuntu started to boot and then, lock on "loading hardware modules" or
  something similar and then, display [FAILED]. Once it was booted, I've tried some basic command found
  here [3] without success : 
    #  mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
    mt: /dev/st0: rmtopen failed: No such file or directory

  I guess I don't have the right module loaded. HP provides diagnostic tools, are they useful? They don't
  even provide a .deb... I've grab a .rpm and rpm2cpio'ed it, it contains a bunch of binaries but nothing who
  looks like a driver.
  I've also downloaded a "Linux Driver Source Code" from the Adaptec website
  (aic7Yxx-2.0.26-6.3.11-linux-2.6.tgz) : no explication at all how to compile it, there is a Makefile but
  make failes : 
     # make
     make: *** No rule to make target `/aic7xxx_seq.h', needed by `/aic7xxx_core.o'.  Stop.

  Any ideas is welcome!


[1] : http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/scsi/2940/AHA-2944UW/
[2] :
http://search.hp.com/query.html?sh=1&charset=UTF-8&la=en&qt=HP%20DAT%2072%20External%20Tape%20Drive%20Q1523A
 and http://www.superwarehouse.com/HP_StorageWorks_DAT_72e_Tape_Drive/Q1523AABA/ps/255391
[3] : http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tape-backup-with-mt-and-tar-command-howto/

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