Hello all, I have a RedHat 8.0 machine with a Travan 40 IDE Tape Drive. It wouldn't work to start with because I found that RH is detecting it as a CD-ROM drive, so the only way I've managed to get it to work is by issuing the following commands:
----- rmmod cdrom rmmod ide-tape rmmod ide-scsi rmmod st insmod ide-scsi insmod st ----- Which after doing that, the tape drive works perfectly - however, the very first time I attempt to do something with it, it falls over. This is what I'm doing, and what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /u/kdmicro/kevin/kdmc] 801# tar -cvf /dev/st0 * tar (child): /dev/st0: Cannot open: No such device tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now But, if I re-issue the tar command a second time - straight after the first one, it works straight away! And will continue to work until I reboot the machine when this happens again. I also tried putting those rmmod and insmod commands in the /etc/rc.local file so that those changes are made when the machine starts up, but it doesn't like that. They need to be run after that point I think. Is there anything I can do to get the drivers to load up like that? /etc/modules.conf? I'm not sure. I don't get it. If there's any explanation or pointers I'd love to hear them. Thanks all. ________________________________________________________________ Kevin Green KD Micro Software MP 107, Market City 280 Bannister Road CANNING VALE WA 6155 Phone: 08 9256 1566 Ext: 2778 Mobile: 0439 696 585 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.kdmicro.com.au -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
