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

[Kiryl Hakhovich]

Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:30:31AM -0400, Kiryl Hakhovich wrote:
>   
>> Peter C. Norton wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:49:24AM -0400, Kiryl Hakhovich wrote:
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>>>> 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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>>> IIRC tape drives are supported as scsi "generic" devices. These
>>> devices are supported by the sg* device. So as a first step, make sure
>>> that you have the scsi generic driver loaded (sg).
>>>
>>> -Peter 
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> thanks Peter, here is a quick addition
>> [root at sys ~]# lsmod |grep sg
>> sg                     37341  0
>> scsi_mod              138221  4 st,sg,aacraid,sd_mod
>> [root at sys ~]#
>>
>> so the driver is loaded, but does not seem to be used by anything :)
>>     
>
> You also have the st driver, for scsi tapes, which means that I may be
> remembering incorrectly (ah... sg for cd-writers and for some
> functions of tapes that aren't covered by the st driver:
> http://sg.torque.net/sg/). You shouldn't immediately worry about the 0
> refcount, that just means that any associated devices aren't in use by
> this driver. Look at the st driver now.
>
> -Peter
>
>   
yes i have read on friday a little about st driver, and it is loaded too
[root at sys ~]# lsmod |grep st
st                     40157  0
scsi_mod              138221  4 st,sg,aacraid,sd_mod
[root at sys ~]#



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Sincerely,

Kiryl Hakhovich