Hello there.
I'm a Linux newbie, and I decided to start from Fedora. So I've installed FC1 and everything works fine.
Today I've added an adaptec AH2904 SCSI card with an attached external DEC TZ87 DLT tape drive. During the reboot the operating system told me that a new scsi controller was detected.
The scsi card and the tape drive seems to be installed correctly, but the tape drive doesn't work. When I try mt -f /dev/st0 status I get "No such device or address" error.
To make the tape work I need to issue a "modprobe aic7xxx" command manually. After that the tape works. When I reboot the machine the tape doesn't work anymore, and I need to issue the modprobe command again.
How can I make the tape working across reboots?
Thanks in advance Stefano
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 13:48, Stefano wrote:
Hello there.
<snip>
To make the tape work I need to issue a "modprobe aic7xxx" command manually. After that the tape works. When I reboot the machine the tape doesn't work anymore, and I need to issue the modprobe command again.
Try adding the following line to /etc/modules.conf :
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
Cheers, -- Tarjei
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tarjei Knapstad" tarjeik@chemcon.no To: "Fedora" fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:07 PM Subject: Re: tape installation
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 13:48, Stefano wrote:
Hello there.
<snip>
To make the tape work I need to issue a "modprobe aic7xxx" command
manually.
After that the tape works. When I reboot the machine the tape doesn't work anymore, and I need to
issue
the modprobe command again.
Try adding the following line to /etc/modules.conf :
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
Cheers,
Tarjei
Tarjei, thanks for your reply, but my modules.conf already have that line. Here's my modules.conf:
alias eth0 3c59x alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
And here is my lsmod output: Module Size Used by Not tainted parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean) lp 9060 0 (autoclean) parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] autofs 13364 0 (autoclean) (unused) 3c59x 31280 1 floppy 58012 0 (autoclean) sg 36492 0 (autoclean) st 31692 0 (autoclean) scsi_mod 108168 2 [sg st] microcode 4700 0 (autoclean) keybdev 2976 0 (unused) hid 24708 0 (unused) usb-uhci 26380 0 (unused) usbcore 79168 1 [hid usb-uhci] mousedev 5556 1 (autoclean) input 5888 0 (autoclean) [keybdev hid mousedev] ext3 71300 2 jbd 52084 2 [ext3]
Any ideas?
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:48, Stefano wrote:
Hello there.
I'm a Linux newbie, and I decided to start from Fedora. So I've installed FC1 and everything works fine.
Today I've added an adaptec AH2904 SCSI card with an attached external DEC TZ87 DLT tape drive. During the reboot the operating system told me that a new scsi controller was detected.
The scsi card and the tape drive seems to be installed correctly, but the tape drive doesn't work. When I try mt -f /dev/st0 status I get "No such device or address" error.
To make the tape work I need to issue a "modprobe aic7xxx" command manually. After that the tape works. When I reboot the machine the tape doesn't work anymore, and I need to issue the modprobe command again.
How can I make the tape working across reboots?
Thanks in advance Stefano
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You can edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file and add the modprobe aic7xxx to the next line of that file and save it. Then when you reboot that driver is loaded.
I had to do that for the RAW1394 driver to reload on reboots.
Wolf
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:48, Stefano wrote:
Hello there.
I'm a Linux newbie, and I decided to start from Fedora. So I've installed FC1 and everything works fine.
Today I've added an adaptec AH2904 SCSI card with an attached external DEC TZ87 DLT tape drive. During the reboot the operating system told me that a new scsi controller was detected.
The scsi card and the tape drive seems to be installed correctly, but the tape drive doesn't work. When I try mt -f /dev/st0 status I get "No such device or address" error.
To make the tape work I need to issue a "modprobe aic7xxx" command manually. After that the tape works. When I reboot the machine the tape doesn't work anymore, and I need to issue the modprobe command again.
How can I make the tape working across reboots?
Thanks in advance Stefano
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Add the modprobe aic7xxx to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. Then that driver will reload when you reboot your system. I had to do that too for a driver to load on reboot on my system.
Wolf
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:11, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:48, Stefano wrote:
Hello there.
To make the tape work I need to issue a "modprobe aic7xxx" command manually. After that the tape works. When I reboot the machine the tape doesn't work anymore, and I need to issue the modprobe command again.
Add the modprobe aic7xxx to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. Then that driver will reload when you reboot your system. I had to do that too for a driver to load on reboot on my system.
I think the "correct" way of loading kernel modules is to add them to /etc/modules.conf.
-- Tarjei
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 00:23, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:11, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:48, Stefano wrote:
Hello there.
To make the tape work I need to issue a "modprobe aic7xxx" command manually. After that the tape works. When I reboot the machine the tape doesn't work anymore, and I need to issue the modprobe command again.
Add the modprobe aic7xxx to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. Then that driver will reload when you reboot your system. I had to do that too for a driver to load on reboot on my system.
I think the "correct" way of loading kernel modules is to add them to /etc/modules.conf.
-- Tarjei
Whatever way works best.. Not everyone knows the 'Correct' way of loading kernel modules. When I had the problem of a module not loading when it needed to.. A google of the net informed me to do it the way I suggested. But as I said, whichever way works best.
Wolf
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefano" santellani@hotmail.com To: fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 1:48 PM Subject: tape installation
Hello there.
I'm a Linux newbie, and I decided to start from Fedora. So I've installed FC1 and everything works fine.
Today I've added an adaptec AH2904 SCSI card with an attached external DEC TZ87 DLT tape drive. During the reboot the operating system told me that a new scsi controller was detected.
The scsi card and the tape drive seems to be installed correctly, but the tape drive doesn't work. When I try mt -f /dev/st0 status I get "No such device or address" error.
To make the tape work I need to issue a "modprobe aic7xxx" command
manually.
After that the tape works. When I reboot the machine the tape doesn't work anymore, and I need to
issue
the modprobe command again.
How can I make the tape working across reboots?
Thanks in advance Stefano
After upgrading the kernel to version 2.4.22-1.2129 the problem disappeared, and the scsi driver is now correctly loaded after each reboot.
But... Why? There was a problem in the old kernel?