[WBEL-users] No such device /dev/st0

marcusv marcusv@siemagblanes.co.za
Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:25:24 +0200


Hi there List.

My OS = WBEL 3.0
I have a initio inic-940P scsi device that is connected to the
motherboard which connects a HP DDS-4 DAT tape drive.
These are a few thing that I have checked.

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lspci -vv
02:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation INI-940 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 9292:0202
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32, cache line size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: I/O ports at a400 [size=256]
        Region 1: Memory at d9001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=32K] 
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lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
st                     31716   0  (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod              108968   1  (autoclean) [st]
soundcore               6436   0  (autoclean)
ide-cd                 35680   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  33696   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
lp                      9028   0  (autoclean)
parport                37088   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 13364   0  (autoclean) (unused)
8139too                18056   1
mii                     3976   0  [8139too]
crc32                   3712   0  [8139too]
floppy                 58160   0  (autoclean)
microcode               4724   0  (autoclean)
keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
mousedev                5524   1
hid                    22212   0  (unused)
input                   5888   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci               26412   0  (unused)
usbcore                79392   1  [hid usb-uhci]
ext3                   91592   2
jbd                    52336   2  [ext3]
raid1                  14988   3
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dmesg |grep scsi
[no output]
dmesg |grep st0
[no output]
dmesg |grep tape
[no output]
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tar tvf /dev/st0
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: No such device
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting n
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[root@fileserver scsi]# pwd
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi
[root@fileserver scsi]# ls -ltr
total 1064
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        77376 Dec 14  2003 sym53c8xx.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        37588 Dec 14  2003 st.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        24000 Dec 14  2003 sr_mod.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        45928 Dec 14  2003 sg.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        19456 Dec 14  2003 sd_mod.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root       138860 Dec 14  2003 scsi_mod.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        86776 Dec 14  2003 qla1280.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        36012 Dec 14  2003 megaraid.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        45324 Dec 14  2003 megaraid2.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        34348 Dec 14  2003 libata.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        53092 Dec 14  2003 ips.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        15440 Dec 14  2003 ide-scsi.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        62276 Dec 14  2003 gdth.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        36920 Dec 14  2003 dpt_i2o.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root       109808 Dec 14  2003 BusLogic.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root         6192 Dec 14  2003 ata_piix.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root       139024 Dec 14  2003 aic7xxx_old.o
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        45088 Dec 14  2003 3w-xxxx.o
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep  4 19:24 aacraid
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep  4 19:24 sym53c8xx_2
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep  4 19:24 aic7xxx
[root@fileserver scsi]#
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[root@fileserver scsi]# modprobe initio.o
modprobe: Can't locate module initio.o
[root@fileserver scsi]#
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[root@fileserver scsi]# insmod initio
insmod: initio: no module by that name found
[root@fileserver scsi]#
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this is the last line in  /var/log/messages
Sep  6 11:04:50 fileserver kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00

Please List any help / pointers / advice to get this device working
would be appreciated.
Regards
Marcus.