Re: Activating st.o tape driver

[<dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Mike,

I think you may be making a mountain out of a molehill. I didn't have to
recompile anything to use the st.o driver in the previous installation. I
think there's a simple configuration entry of some sort missing.

--Doc

On Tuesday March 11, 2003 Mike808 wrote:
>> At reboot I was encouraged to see the SCSI host adapter detected
>> properly, then dismayed to discover that the /dev/st0 device doesn't
>> work at all. The tape drive is not listed in /proc/scsi/scsi, and 'tar
>> tfv /dev/st0' barfs with "no such device" -- even after running
>> 'insmod st'
>>
>> Without this connectivity, all those backup tapes are useless.
>> Suggestions?
>
> Use the source. Get the kernel sources and recompile the st DAT driver.
> You may need to enable some options in the kernel. Maybe the kernel
> options are different enough between phoebe and psyche.
>
> If it's a proprietary kernel driver for the DAT, well, contact your
> vendor or complain and tell them you are going to buy a DAT with Open
> Source drivers so you don't have this problem anymore.
>
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