[TriLUG] SCSI Devices in "RedHat-like" environments

[William Sutton]

fwiw, have you tried an old stock red hat install?  I know I've put Red 
Hat, Mandrake, and Gentoo on my scsi hardware without it having detection 
issues (adaptec 2940 u2w card, plextor cd/cdr drives, ibm hdd's).

William

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Brian McCullough wrote:

> Hi, All.
> 
> This may be too late for some of you, but I'll see who is reading this
> evening and weekend.
> 
> 
> I have been running Debian and Debian-like distributions for some time
> now, with probably a version 6.x or so being the last Red Hat that I was
> familiar with.  I also have had TurboLinux in one of my machines, that
> happens to have a SCSI card and tape drive.  
> 
> Recently, I upgraded the TurboLinux to a more RedHat-like system, 
> with a 2.6.8 kernel.  All of a sudden, no more SCSI of any type!  Since
> I don't have any real problems with compiling kernels, I got a "virgin"
> 2.6.10 source, made sure that SCSI, tape and my particular card were
> included, and compiled.
> 
> OK, so far so good.  I reboot, and after the system has started, Kudzu
> comes up and says that it has found my SCSI card.  I say fine, go ahead
> and configure it, and things seem happy.  I reboot again, and dmesg
> says, just as in the Turbo days, that it has found a SCSI card and Tape
> Drive and it is being assigned to /dev/st0 !
> 
> However, and here is where the story gets a bit unhappy -- I don't seem
> to be able to make use of that device in any way.  mt /dev/st0 rewind,
> says something like "no such device", tar says the same thing, there is
> nothing in /proc/scsi.   ????
> 
> 
> Anybody have any bright ideas regarding the step that I have missed.  It
> has been a Looooong time since I set up that tape drive, so I am very
> willing to believe that there is something critical that I have missed.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
>