ide tape drive issues

[Daniel Watrous]

Thanks for the reply.  I have tried the steps you suggest and found it to 
have no effect.  After changing the line in grub.conf I rebooted.  I have 
found that ht0, nst0, tape, etc. still access the tape drive and the results 
of commands are still a bit goofy (as described initially).  Is there 
someway to reinstall the tape drive drivers or other reference material?

Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dballester at kernpharma.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: ide tape drive issues


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>> I have a dell poweredge 600SC that was originally installed with
>> Redhat 8.  I downloaded fedora core 2 and performed an upgrade to
>> this system.  Before the upgrade the IDE tape drive worked fine with
>> a SCSI emulator which comes compiled into the linux kernel by
>> default.  After the upgrade I began to see the following error:
>> root$ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
>> /dev/nst0: No such device or address
>> I ran the diagnostics and found that the tape drive is functioning
>> properly.  At length I looked at the grub.conf file and found the
>> following line:
>>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ /dev/ht0=ide-scsi
>> and so I tried to access ht0.  This worked, but a little different
>
> Hello:
>
>      As far has I know FC2 comes with 2.6 kernel series, and this series
> doesn't use SCSI emulation for emulated devices as CD-RW, for example. May
> be is the same for the ide tape drive.
>
>      To test it, try to comment /dev/ht0=ide-scsi in your grub.conf file
> ( make a backup of this file before, ok ? ;) )
>
> let the line like this:
>           kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/
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> And reboot with this configuration.
>
> Search in /proc or /sys for something related to tape drive, surely you
> will get the /dev attached to , or take a look to the  'cat
> /var/log/messages | grep -i scsi '
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> HTH
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> David Ballester Montolio
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