See a recent thread in the archives. You might have to modprobe for it. 2005/12/13, Marc Peiser <marcpeiser at gmail.com>: > I'm trying to get a scsi tape device (Sony SDX-D500V) working on my dell > 2450 running centos 4.2. I can see the device (ch1, id2) using the dell bois > raid utility, but once booted into linux I can't see any mention of it in > the logs or dmesg. Enrico, Texas A&M University