[expert] MDK 8.1 scsi-emulation and IDE Tape drive
Hi All, I have just had to rebuild a server and decided to use 8.1. This box previously ran 8.0 with a HP Colorado IDE 14 Gb tape unit. This worked great. With the 8.1 installed there was no /dev/st0, I assumed that for whatever reason, ide-scsi was not installed (8.0 was automatically installed). I have looked about the forums and some suggest that the kernel needs to be rebuilt. Other suggestions appear to add a line to lilo.conf, hdd=ide-scsi. This instance hda is the boot device and hdd in the tape unit. Anyway, with the line added to lilo.conf the /dev/st0 now exists but cannot write to the device using normal methods. I guess I am missing something. I really would not like to rebuild the kernel unless I have no choice (never done it before) because the box is a P120, so it could take a while. Any suggestions would be great! DMESG = 'dmesg|grep hd' Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=scsi ro root=301 hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX20.4A, ATA DISK drive hdb: CD-ROM Drive/F5D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: HP COLORADO 14GB, ATAPI TAPE drive hda: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Thanks Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 8.1 scsi-emulation and IDE Tape drive
Thanks James, added the 'nomount' option to the lilo and it now works fine. I wonder if 8.2 will be more intelligent and revert to 8.0 logic for this? Dave. On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:15:57 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:48:27 -0500 David Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, You shouldn't need to rebuild the kernel if the dev is now created. I've got an ide-scsi cdrw in my box and in order to get the writes to work correctly I had to change append devfs=mount to append devfs=nomount. Once I did it started to burn correctly and in fact I haven't had a bad burn (that wasn't by my own foobar) since. Maybe this will work with the colorado as well. This by the way is one of the biggest differences between the 8.0 and 8.1 for causing headaches. (IMHO) James Hi All, I have just had to rebuild a server and decided to use 8.1. This box previously ran 8.0 with a HP Colorado IDE 14 Gb tape unit. This worked great. With the 8.1 installed there was no /dev/st0, I assumed that for whatever reason, ide-scsi was not installed (8.0 was automatically installed). I have looked about the forums and some suggest that the kernel needs to be rebuilt. Other suggestions appear to add a line to lilo.conf, hdd=ide-scsi. This instance hda is the boot device and hdd in the tape unit. Anyway, with the line added to lilo.conf the /dev/st0 now exists but cannot write to the device using normal methods. I guess I am missing something. I really would not like to rebuild the kernel unless I have no choice (never done it before) because the box is a P120, so it could take a while. Any suggestions would be great! DMESG = 'dmesg|grep hd' Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=scsi ro root=301 hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX20.4A, ATA DISK drive hdb: CD-ROM Drive/F5D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: HP COLORADO 14GB, ATAPI TAPE drive hda: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Thanks Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 8.1 scsi-emulation and IDE Tape drive
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:48:27 -0500 David Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, You shouldn't need to rebuild the kernel if the dev is now created. I've got an ide-scsi cdrw in my box and in order to get the writes to work correctly I had to change append devfs=mount to append devfs=nomount. Once I did it started to burn correctly and in fact I haven't had a bad burn (that wasn't by my own foobar) since. Maybe this will work with the colorado as well. This by the way is one of the biggest differences between the 8.0 and 8.1 for causing headaches. (IMHO) James Hi All, I have just had to rebuild a server and decided to use 8.1. This box previously ran 8.0 with a HP Colorado IDE 14 Gb tape unit. This worked great. With the 8.1 installed there was no /dev/st0, I assumed that for whatever reason, ide-scsi was not installed (8.0 was automatically installed). I have looked about the forums and some suggest that the kernel needs to be rebuilt. Other suggestions appear to add a line to lilo.conf, hdd=ide-scsi. This instance hda is the boot device and hdd in the tape unit. Anyway, with the line added to lilo.conf the /dev/st0 now exists but cannot write to the device using normal methods. I guess I am missing something. I really would not like to rebuild the kernel unless I have no choice (never done it before) because the box is a P120, so it could take a while. Any suggestions would be great! DMESG = 'dmesg|grep hd' Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=scsi ro root=301 hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX20.4A, ATA DISK drive hdb: CD-ROM Drive/F5D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: HP COLORADO 14GB, ATAPI TAPE drive hda: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Thanks Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
