Re: Newbie Needs help with tape drive

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:56:28AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> Greetings gurus,
> 
> I need help adding a scsi tape drive to my 7.2 system.
> 
> I recompiled the kernal for scsi tape support.  Added a scsi card. I have reviewed the scsi howto,but things still aren't working.
> 
> >From the gnome hardware browser - it sees the tape drive listed as /dev/st, but I can not access it.  I have tried as /dev/st0, /dev/nst0 with out any luck.  
> 
> I have tried to add it to the /proc/sc
> 
> modules.conf
> ===============================
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias eth0 3c59x
> alias scsi_hostadapter off
> alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
> post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> alias usb-controller usb-ohci
> options i810 xfreeversion=41
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 atp870u

Edit the above to be:

alias scsi_hostadapter atp870u

and comment out the scsi_hostadapter1 line and try it again.

-- 
Jack Bowling
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