Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, When I modprobe initio I get the single word 'killed' at which the whole system freezes and I have to switch off at the box. Do I need to modify the kernel? Thanks. On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:14 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:55:28PM +, Gavin Seddon wrote:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-11 Thread Brett Johnson
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:32:20AM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, When I modprobe initio I get the single word 'killed' at which the whole system freezes and I have to switch off at the box. Do I need to modify the kernel? Thanks. What model initio board do you have? There are two

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-09 Thread Brett Johnson
st: Version 20050830, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 It appears to me that the st driver is loading properly, but I did not see any sign of the SCSI driver loading in the dmesg output. This could be becuase you have the module compiled as a module, in which case you can jump to the last

[gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have a scsi tape with an initio controller. 'dmesg' sees initio 360p. But when I use mt I get ' mt -f /dev/st0 eject /dev/st0: No such device or address' Where will the tape be? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Brett Johnson
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:25:07PM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I have a scsi tape with an initio controller. 'dmesg' sees initio 360p. But when I use mt I get ' mt -f /dev/st0 eject /dev/st0: No such device or address' Where will the tape be? Thanks. First thing I would check is the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Billy Holmes
Brett Johnson wrote: As an example, look for your primary hard drive entry (hda, hde, sda etc). There should be a similar entry for st0 after it detects the tape drive. he could also post a gzip'd copy of his dmesg, or better yet.. provide a link to it. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing