[nylug-talk] scsi, tape drive, kernel 2.6

[Kiryl Hakhovich]

etamme at optonline.net wrote:
> I have had issues with dell scsi before.  They use some "megaraid" controller.  I had to recompile to get support for it in my kernel... I hope that's not the case for you with fedora :\
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kiryl Hakhovich <administrator at bsolution.net>
>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:32:58 
> To:NYLUG Technical Discussion <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
> Subject: [nylug-talk] scsi, tape drive, kernel 2.6
>
>
> Hey guys,
> i'm stomped here.... i have decided to upgrade my backup machine  to FC5.
> It's a dell poweredge 1650. Befor server boot, i can see that scsi does 
> recognize my tape drive.
> However linux refuses to see it:
>
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: DELL     Model: PERC Mirror      Rev: V1.0
>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: DELL     Model: PERC Mirror      Rev: V1.0
>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> dmesg does not show any sign of any tape drive. lspci nothing either.
>
> Has anyone seen similar behavior?
>
>   
thanks for response, the trick is that it has 3  hard drives connected 
to a different channel of same scsci controller, and fedora able to boot 
from it and sees the raid just fine. Unless there is no support for 
removable media in this driver?


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Kiryl Hakhovich
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