> 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=/
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 '
HTH
David Ballester Montolio
GNU/Linux - Unices Sysadmin
Oracle DBA
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