On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Lars Nordin wrote: > For a true SCSI tape drive (not an IDE tape drive that is accessed as a SCSI > tape drive using the ide-scsi module), you do not need to run makedev nor > re-install -> just load the scsi tape module (note the SCSI controller module > has to be loaded first). I think that even the module will be automatically > inserted when accessing /dev/st0 or when the systems boots and finds the SCSI > controller.
that is indeed how it normally works and they way its supposed to work. mostly due to the embedded instructions on the scsi controler itself. problems occur when the controller is junk, and there isn't anything the OS can do to take up the slack. -- Mark "If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?" ----------------------------------------------------------- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 ICQ# 27816299
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