no /dev/nst0

[Neal D. Becker]

Now it stopped working completely.  This is all updates as of yesterday.
I loaded st, but still no /dev/nst0.

Log says:

Oct 11 07:04:22 rpppc1 kernel: st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768,
s/g segs 256
Oct 11 07:04:22 rpppc1 kernel: Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0,
id 0, lun 0
Oct 11 07:04:22 rpppc1 kernel: st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B),
max page reachable by HBA 1048575

Dwaine Garden wrote:

> Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 
>> Neal D. Becker wrote:
>>
>>> Dwaine Garden wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Allen Kistler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Neal D. Becker wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> My scsi tape used to be /dev/nst0, now it doesn't seem to have been
>>>>>> created.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Same problem as "SCSI DVD drive not recognized  on fc3-t2 kernel
>>>>> 2.6.8-1.584"
>>>>>
>>>>> Anything SCSI that's not a hard drive doesn't get created in /dev.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At least everyone is giving udev a good testing...  8*)
>>>>
>>>> Dwaine.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggested workaround in the meantime?  I need to run a backup.
>>>
>>
>> Load the st module..
>>
> That's what worked for me.
> 
> Dwaine.
>