[Cialug] RedHat ES & scsi tape

[David Champion]

Grrr... It was automatically loading the aic7xxx module, it should have 
been the aix79xx module.

Works fine now.

-dc

Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> 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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