On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 16:53 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote: > Group: > > I'm trying to restore a backup (dump format) tape to a Compaq DL380 from FC3 > rescue mode. The drives are configured in a hardware raid1 array. I don't > have any issues getting to the logical drive, in fact I've made all my > partitons for the restore but my dds4 tape drive is attached to the external > port of the array controller and is seen at boot as a normal SCSI device, yet > the st module doesn't load and of course without it I can't address /dev/st0 > or /dev/nst0. Is there another module that I have to load in order for st to > load and work? I can't even manually get modprobe to load the st module. I have a DL380 running Red Hat 9 and in order to be able to use a tape drive with the array controller, I have to do: for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]* do echo "engage scsi" > $x done in rc.local Worth a try. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
