Fedora Users — Re: ide tape drive issues

Thanks for the reply. I have tried the steps you suggest and found it to have no effect. After changing the line in grub.conf I rebooted. I have found that ht0, nst0, tape, etc. still access the tape drive and the results of commands are still a bit goofy (as described initially). Is there someway to reinstall the tape drive drivers or other reference material?

Daniel

----- Original Message ----- From: <dballester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:13 AM Subject: Re: ide tape drive issues

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
SAP-BC
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Kern Pharma - Grupo Indukern
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