----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefano" <santellani@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 1:48 PM Subject: tape installation > 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 > After upgrading the kernel to version 2.4.22-1.2129 the problem disappeared, and the scsi driver is now correctly loaded after each reboot. But... Why? There was a problem in the old kernel?
