Hi, All. This may be too late for some of you, but I'll see who is reading this evening and weekend.
I have been running Debian and Debian-like distributions for some time now, with probably a version 6.x or so being the last Red Hat that I was familiar with. I also have had TurboLinux in one of my machines, that happens to have a SCSI card and tape drive. Recently, I upgraded the TurboLinux to a more RedHat-like system, with a 2.6.8 kernel. All of a sudden, no more SCSI of any type! Since I don't have any real problems with compiling kernels, I got a "virgin" 2.6.10 source, made sure that SCSI, tape and my particular card were included, and compiled. OK, so far so good. I reboot, and after the system has started, Kudzu comes up and says that it has found my SCSI card. I say fine, go ahead and configure it, and things seem happy. I reboot again, and dmesg says, just as in the Turbo days, that it has found a SCSI card and Tape Drive and it is being assigned to /dev/st0 ! However, and here is where the story gets a bit unhappy -- I don't seem to be able to make use of that device in any way. mt /dev/st0 rewind, says something like "no such device", tar says the same thing, there is nothing in /proc/scsi. ???? Anybody have any bright ideas regarding the step that I have missed. It has been a Looooong time since I set up that tape drive, so I am very willing to believe that there is something critical that I have missed. Thanks, Brian
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