Marc Peiser <marcpeiser at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Is it the same SCSI controller as the SCSI disks? Are the SCSI disks in a hardware RAID configuration? Just FYI, some Linux drivers for SCSI cards with RAID only have disk/block support, and not more advanced support for rich peripherals like optical/tape on the same controller. [ I don't know if that is your case, I haven't researched your Dell model/configuration. ] > Do you know if the generic kernel (2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp) > supports this tape device? Yes. But I think you're issue is something else (as above). > Can anyone give me any pointers in getting this > device working. If you do an "lsmod", we can find out more about your SCSI controller. Now if your tape is attached to a different controller (not just a different channel on the same controller) than your disks, then it's probably just the fact the SCSI driver isn't loaded. In either case, I need to know what disk controller. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)