[Cialug] RedHat ES & scsi tape

[John Roach]

Have you tried these?

Method 1:

 # cd /dev; MAKEDEV st

Method 2:

 # cd /dev
 # mknod -m 660 st0 c 9 0
 # mknod -m 660 nst0 c 9 128
 # chown root:tape st0 nst0

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-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of David Champion
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 3:15 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] RedHat ES & scsi tape

Anyone running RedHat ES 4 and using scsi tape drives?

Under Mandriva, this all works just fine. I've been using scsi tapes for

years, so this isn't a n00b issue.

I've "upgraded" the server hardware, and put the same scsi card & tape 
drive in the new server. In RH ES, there's no /dev/st0 device. I've 
tried doing a "modprobe aic7xxx" (which is the correct driver for my 
card) and "modprobe st", but it doesn't create the /dev/st0 device, and 
/proc/scsi/scsi doesn't show my tape drive.

RedHat's KB and various google searches haven't been too helpful. Some 
suggest that I might have to build a custom kernel - to get something as

common as a scsi tape to work?

Any ideas?

-dc

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