I finally took the plunge yesterday, and upgraded my last system to kernel 2.6.3. Unfortunately, this is my amanda backup server, and under this kernel it no longer communicates with /dev/nst0: # sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 offline mt: No such device. Cannot open '/dev/nst0'. Everything else appears to work as expected. I didn't notice this tape problem until this morning, I saw the backup was stuck on holdingdisk. Running following results in `0' tape devices found: # sudo /etc/init.d/mt-st modload Regardless of kernel, I see this: # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L812 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 . . . Now, after reboot back into 2.4.25, /dev/nst0 is working fine, and I am flushing last night's backup to tape as I compose this. I have searched the archives and Google; but, the string `st' is very common, and I probably have not found the optimal search string ;> What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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