Tape Drive

[jdardozzi]

Hello,

So far things have been going well with my Zentyal server running on a VMware ESXi/PowerEdge 2950 platform.  Very stable and easy to use.  Recently I attempted to add a Dell 200gb LTO tape drive to the configuration but this addition hangs the boot process.

Any clues?

Thanks

Jeff

[Marcus]

Hello jdardozzi,

[...]this addition hangs the boot process.

It is probably trying to mount the drive (waiting for it to be mounted before continuing the boot process).

Is there any warning on the boot screen ?  Something similar to:

The disk drive for /commodore-64-tape-drive is not ready yet or not present
Continue to wait; or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

If that is the case, you may add the option nobootwait to your /etc/fstab.

!! Be very careful with the fstab.  It may render your system unbootable !!

Best,

Marcus