On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 16:29, Geoff Rainey (DSLAK) wrote: > You are correct, after I investigated further last night, it is a compaq > 5i smart raid array controller. These use the cciss drivers right? > Some notes would be fabulous! Yes, the 5i uses the cciss drivers. The problem is the 5i card is presented as a block device rather than a SCSI device. What you'll need to do is compile a custom kernel that includes optional tape drive support for the 5xxx cards. On my RHEL 2.1 box (which is close to RH 7.2 / 7.3) the options are under block devices. Select "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support" and "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx". I built them in rather than making them modules. Although support for the tape drive should now be available, you'll have to actually initialize the tape drive post-boot. I use the following snippet of code added to rc.local: # for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]* # do # echo "engage scsi" > $x # done A little overkill, but it should find the tape drive regardless of RAID card number and/or SCSI ID. If you see something like the following in /var/log/messages, you should be good to go (yours may be different if your tape drive is DLT): preston kernel: cciss0: No device changes detected. preston kernel: scsi0 : cciss0 preston kernel: Vendor: COMPAQ Model: SDT-10000 Rev: 1.16 preston kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 preston kernel: st: Version 20010812, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 preston kernel: Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 You should also be able to see the tape drive in /proc: [root@preston root]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: COMPAQ Model: SDT-10000 Rev: 1.16 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 I think this should be enought to get you going, let me know if it isn't. -Eric -- Eric Sisler <esisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Library Applications Specialist Westminster Public Library Westminster, CO USA Linux - Don't fear the Penguin. Want to know what we use Linux for? Visit http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
