What version of anaconda are you testing against here? dlehman added
support for creating the tape device nodes in iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes
for 11.3.0.6-1, and this should work in rescue mode as well.
I evaluated that patch with kernel-2.6.18 and kudzu-1.2.57.1.13-1.
this combination can not work well.
because the following "kudzu.probe" return devs which include
"CLASS_TAPE" but dev.device for "CLASS_TAPE" is "None"
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....
....
def driveDict(klassArg):
import parted
global cachedDrives
if cachedDrives is None:
# FIXME: need to add dasd probing to kudzu
devs = kudzu.probe(kudzu.CLASS_HD | kudzu.CLASS_CDROM | \
kudzu.CLASS_FLOPPY | kudzu.CLASS_TAPE,
kudzu.BUS_UNSPEC, kudzu.PROBE_SAFE)
new = {}
for dev in devs:
device = dev.device
if device is None: # none devices make no sense
continue <--Here
....
....
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the following is the results of "kudzu.probe" on rescue mode.
(Device is None)
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sh-3.1# python
...
...
>>> import kudzu
>>> kudzu.probe(kudzu.CLASS_TAPE, kudzu.BUS_UNSPEC, kudzu.PROBE_SAFE)
[Desc: SONY SDT-10000
Driver: None
Device: None
]
>>>
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and then I also have read kudzu.
I thought we need to modify kudzu/scsi.c(scsiProbe) and
kudzu/kudzu.c(__getSysfsDevice and so on (devCmp..)...)
if kudzu is modified, i think current iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes
will be fine.
but if kudzu is not modified, my previous patch can create
"/dev/stX" and "/dev/nstX".(not create st0a, st0m.....)
---
additionally, even if kudzu.prove return devs and
dev.device is "st0", iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes can not create
"/dev/st0".
see the attached patch.(if multi tape device will be supported,
we need add "nst1", "st1","nst2", "st2".....)
- Chris
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diff -u -r1.42 devnodes.c
--- isys/devnodes.c 17 Nov 2005 00:16:42 -0000 1.42
+++ isys/devnodes.c 6 Aug 2007 10:56:07 -0000
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
{ "mcd", 23, 0, 0 },
{ "mcdx", 20, 0, 0 },
{ "nst0", 9, 128, 1 },
+ { "st0", 9, 0, 1 },
{ "optcd", 17, 0, 0 },
{ "psaux", 10, 1, 1 },
{ "sbpcd", 25, 0, 0 },
