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

[dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au]

Quoting Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>:
> On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 13:15 +0800, dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au wrote:

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>> 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.

Thanks, Nick and Craig.

I will be able to access the machine tomorrow so will check on those points.
As far as the SCSI hardware driver is concerned, I would think it is there
because both SCSI drives are presnet - machine boots up okay from its SCSI
drives.

Denis