[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.