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 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > 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
