Hi All,
I have just had to rebuild a server and decided to use 8.1. This box previously ran
8.0 with a HP Colorado IDE 14 Gb tape unit. This worked great.
With the 8.1 installed there was no /dev/st0, I assumed that for whatever reason,
ide-scsi was not installed (8.0 was automatically installed). I have looked about the
forums and some suggest that the kernel needs to be rebuilt. Other suggestions appear
to add a line to lilo.conf, hdd=ide-scsi. This instance hda is the boot device and hdd
in the tape unit. Anyway, with the line added to lilo.conf the /dev/st0 now exists but
cannot write to the device using normal methods. I guess I am missing something.
I really would not like to rebuild the kernel unless I have no choice (never done it
before) because the box is a P120, so it could take a while.
Any suggestions would be great!
DMESG => 'dmesg|grep hd'
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=scsi ro root=301 hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX20.4A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CD-ROM Drive/F5D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: HP COLORADO 14GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
hda: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Thanks Dave.
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