Re: devices

[Dean Allen Provins <provinsd@telusplanet.net>]

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?

> 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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