[Centos] Tape drive problems

Thu May 27 00:11:30 UTC 2004
syv <centos at 911networks.com>

Hi,

Hi,

I have been googling, and can't find anything that will help me:

mt -f /dev/st0 status
/dev/st0: No such device or address       

Any suggestion?

I am using CentOS 3 [RHEL ES3 without the licenses]

The tape drive is recognized at boot [from dmesg]

scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
        <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
        aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs

blk: queue d3e53014, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
(scsi0:A:11): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit)
  Vendor: EXABYTE   Model: VXA-2             Rev: 100E
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
blk: queue d37a7e14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16
Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 11, lun 0
scsi : 0 hosts left. 

I also get:
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: none     

dir -l /proc/scsi/scsi
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 May 26 16:23 /proc/scsi/scsi   


Here is the output of lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1           3516   0  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               5148   0  (autoclean)
vfat                   13036   0  (autoclean)
fat                    38872   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
raid1                  15020   0  (unused)
raid0                   3976   0  (unused)
linear                  2088   0  (unused)
loop                   12120   0
ide-tape               53264   0  (autoclean)
soundcore               6468   0  (autoclean)
st                     31716   0  (autoclean)
ide-cd                 35680   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  33696   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
autofs                 13364   0  (autoclean) (unused)
e1000                  76096   1
floppy                 58160   0  (autoclean)
sg                     36972   0  (autoclean)
scsi_mod              110376   2  (autoclean) [st sg]
microcode               5848   0  (autoclean)
keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
mousedev                5524   0
hid                    22212   0  (unused)
input                   5920   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
ehci-hcd               20136   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               26412   0  (unused)
usbcore                79424   1  [hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
ext3                   88104   2
jbd                    52464   2  [ext3]  


Here is the kernel:

uname -r
2.4.21-15.EL.c0

-- 
Thanks
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