/dev/tape: No such device

[spiegl@appl-math.tu-muenchen.de]

Hi!

I've got a little problem with the scsi tape module (st.o):

Everything is fine, when I turn on the streamer before the
computer and when I don't unload the driver manually (rmmod st).

But if I turn on the streamer after the computer I get:
 /dev/tape: No such device
whenever I try to access the tape (through /dev/tape as a link
to /dev/nst0 or 7dev/st0).  Is this normal?  Do I really have to
reboot when I want to make a backup, ie. want to use the tape drive?

Thanks a lot in advance,
 Andy.

PS: Running debian 1.4, and kerneld, ie. "auto" in /etc/modules.
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