[KLUG Members] T4000 drive issue

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:56:52 -0500


> First of all, if this is too simple an issue, I'd be happy to move it to
> Novices
> That said, I'm having troubles getting my RedHat 9 box to recognize a T4000
> tape drive on a SCSI card.  I'm not even sure what info you need to know to
> help, but I've included the output of dmesg and the contents of
> /proc/scsi/scsi.  Any ideas?
> ----------------------------------
> relevent portions of dmesg output:
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:08.0
> ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 8, function 0
> ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected
> ncr53c810-0: rev 0x2 on pci bus 0 device 8 function 0 irq 11
> ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
> scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b-20010512
>   Vendor: HP        Model: T4000s            Rev: 1.07
>   Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02

So "mt -f /dev/st0 status" doesn't work?  What happens if you "modprobe
st"?