fwiw, have you tried an old stock red hat install? I know I've put Red Hat, Mandrake, and Gentoo on my scsi hardware without it having detection issues (adaptec 2940 u2w card, plextor cd/cdr drives, ibm hdd's).
William On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Brian McCullough wrote: > 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 > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
