From: Abilio Carvalho <abilio.carvalho at bbp.ch> > I have Centos 5.2 and am trying to set up my first tape loader, a > Quantum SuperLoader 3. My "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" outputs the following: > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: transtec Model: PV610F16R1C Rev: 373I > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 > Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: HP Model: Ultrium 3-SCSI Rev: D22D > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 > Vendor: HP Model: Ultrium 4-SCSI Rev: B54Z > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 > It is my understanding that there should be TWO devices for the loader, > one for the tape drive and one for itself. From reading around, it seems > that it's lacking Multiple LUM support. My question is, are more recent > versions of CentOS enabling that by default? Either compiling kernel > modules or doing a full upgrade of the system are "big" jobs in my case, > but I'd prefer the upgrade if 5.5 works out of the box. Or do I really > need to recompile kernel, enable max_lums in modprobe.conf, etc? Hum... Last time I used an autoloader, around 1999, it was working out of the box... I see 3 devices: the loader, and 2 drives... Do you mean there is really only 1 drive? JD