[Cialug] RedHat ES & scsi tape

[David Champion]

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