[Cialug] RedHat ES & scsi tape

[Nathan C. Smith]

If the server has been upgraded, maybe a PCI bus issue - like conflicting
voltages or something?  3.3v v. 5v ?

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Champion [mailto:dchampion at visionary.com] 
> 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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