[plug] debian 3.0, scsi tape drive, "no such device"

[Craig Ringer]

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 13:15 +0800, dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au wrote:
> Dear PLUG list members,
> 
> The following Used To Work (tm) but either my memory for how to drive it is
> worse than I thought, there has been some upgrade that broke things or I have
> faulty hardware (in that order of reasonableness.)
> 
> DDS4 drive connected to the same SCSI chain that runs the drives.   /dev/st0
> exists but when attempting to do even simple tar operations (eg. tar -t
> /dev/st0) I get told that the device does not exist.

Confirm that the SCSI hardware driver has loaded, and that the `st'
driver has loaded. Check `dmesg' to see what's being found on the bus.

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Craig Ringer