hp tape drive not recognized

[Tom Brown <brown@esteem.com>]

Hi,

I am migrating our company servers from RH to Debian and one of the last 
hurdles is the tape drive. We have an HP SureStore Dat40x6 tape drive that is 
not being recognized under Debian. We are running Debian 3.0r2 and kernel 
2.4.26. I have compiled in scsi support and scsi tape support.

cat /proc/scsi/scsi:
Attached devices: none

dmesg:
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2

/var/log/messages:
Jul 12 12:50:22 zan kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00


The tape drive worked without a problem under RH 8.0. What is the problem 
under Debian?

Thanks,
Tom