James M0TJC wrote: > On Friday 17 Jun 2005 18:54, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > >>to load the driver. If this is the case, you can add this to >>/etc/modprobe.preload to have the driver loaded at boot. But it should >>be loaded for you. (I don't have any IDE tape drives right now to test >>this, but the SCSI tape module is working without adding anything.) >> >>Mikkel > > > Hello again, > > Just been browsing my syslog, and came up with this: > > Jun 17 20:08:12 localhost kernel: ide-tape: Use drive hdd with ide-scsi > emulation and osst. > Jun 17 20:08:12 localhost kernel: ide-tape: OnStream support will be removed > soon from ide-tape! > Jun 17 20:08:12 localhost kernel: ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: OnStream DI-30 rev > 1.05 > Jun 17 20:08:12 localhost kernel: ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: 990KBps, 64*32kB > buffer, 10208kB pipeline, 62ms tDSC, DMA > > ?? > > Cheers, > > James > > I am going to have to think on this a bit. It looks like the system is seeing the drive. There are rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-mdk.rules that should be creating /dev/ht0 when the module is loaded. You may want to turn on logging in /etc/udev/udev.conf. (Change udev_log="no" to udev_log="yes" and run "service udev reload".) Then run:
modprobe -r ide-tape modprobe ide-tape You should see some messages in the log from udev about ht0... From there we may be able to figure out what is going on. A possible work-around - add "hdd=scsi" to the append line for your kernel in /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo, and reboot. You would then use the st module instead of the ide-tape module for the drive. You would use /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 instead of /dev/ht0 and /dev/nht0. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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