Re: devices

[Dr Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 17:48, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
> Gavin:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:17:23PM +0000, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > Ihave 2 devices that I cannot get working.
> > 
> > a.  A scsi tape drive.  Here I have installed the mt-st kernel patch and
> > made a ln -s between /dev/sto and /dev/tape.
> 
> I'm using kernel 2.4.18 without any patches and can see my SCSI tape as
> /dev/[n]st0.  Of course I have "CONFIG_SCSI=y" and
> "CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y" (my scsi card), plus some related SCSI
> configuration parameters set.
> 
> What are your symptoms?

The tape and cdrw are not 'seen'.  That is the they are not found by
cdrecord -scanbus.  Also the st0 is not a valid block device.

Gav.
> 
> > b.  A cdrw, here I have installed the scsi emulation patch and added an
> > append line to my lilo.conf.
> > 
> > I suspect the 2 probs may be linked.  Can someone help pls?
> > -- 
> > Dr Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk>
> > University of Manchester
> > 
> > 
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Dr Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk>
University of Manchester