On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 at 9:40am, Russell Adams wrote > I'm having repeated problems with my tape changer and the sg device. > > I'm running a Dell Powervault 120T (DLT7000 w/ 7 tape changer) on an > adaptec (aic7xxx driver) card. > > Every time I load a tape using mtx, subsequent calls to mtx report: > > cannot open SCSI device '/dev/sg0' - No such device or address > > /dev/sg0 still exists, but I can't seem to talk to the changer > anymore. I can talk to the drive itself however.
Can you actually write to the drive? > The only fix I've found for this is to rmmod all the scsi drivers > (st,sr_mod,sg,aic7xxx) and then insmod them again. This sounds suspiciously like either bad hardware or a bad SCSI chain. Are you sure everything is terminated properly? How's your cable length? Does it work on another machine or with a different SCSI card? What color was the goat? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
