On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 14:09 +1000, Crossfire wrote:
> David Gillies was once rumoured to have said:
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> > ashley maher wrote:
> > > I have an IBM xServer 226, with ServerRaid. dmesg does not detect the
> > > scsi tape drive. More /proc/scsi/scsi finds the existance (ie model
> > > number no details like it knows something is there not a clue what) of
> > > the drive but not much else.
> >
> > I think you'll probably get better results with hooking up the scsi tape
> > drive to the internal scsi controller instead of the serveraid
> > controller. Over my time working with IBM servers, we've always hooked
> > up scsi tape drives to a seperate controller as hooking them up the
> > serveraid has always been more trouble than its worth.
>
> I'm also suspecting that nobody has even suggested that he ensures
> that the 'st' module is loaded as /dev/{n,}st* nodes will not
> exist/work without it, regardless if the drive is detected or not.
>
> C.
>
thanks, this was suggested, and got me nowhere.
Unless I missed a step somewhere, but lsmod did return st* in the list.
Regards,
Ashley
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