Re: SCSI tape drive unrecognized

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:13:37PM -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> Situation:  IBM laptop in docking station. Docking station has Symbios
> 53C810-type SCSI host adapter installed and connected to external DAT
> drive. The HA and drive work perfectly with a Win2K drive in the laptop.
> Since this is a post-install RH8 configuration, I've had to manually add
> the following lines to /etc/modules.conf: 
> 
>    # SCSI host adapter (docking station only) 
>    alias scsi-hostadapter0 sym53c8xx_2 
>    # 
>    # Tape drivers (docking station only) 
>    alias st0 st 
>    # OnStream driver 
>    #alias osst0 osst 
>    # 

OK, two things jump out at me.  First, if this is really a 53c810, you
may need to use one of the other drivers for the card.  Don't hold me
to this, but I *think* sym53c8xx_2 is the "new" driver that doesn't
include support for some of the older 53c8xx cards, and the 53c810 is
as old as they get.  You probably want to try sym53c8xx, ncr53c8xx, or
53c7,8xx (in that order).

Second, to get the 53c8xx driver to load automagically when you hit
the tape drive, try adding this to modules.conf:

    pre-install st modprobe -k scsi-hostadapter0

You might actually have to give the correct module name (sym53c8xx or
whatever) instead of scsi-hostadapter0.

Steve
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