[Cialug] RedHat ES & scsi tape

[Daniel Wittenberg]

Sounds like your controller isn't being recognized.  Anything in dmesg
after loading the aic module?

Dan

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:46 -0500, David Champion wrote:
> No.
> 
> -dc
> 
> Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> > Do you see anything in /proc/scsi/aic7xxx ?
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:15 -0500, David Champion wrote:
> > 
> >>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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