[WBEL-users] Tape drive problem

[marcusv]

Oh well seeing that I can not get this to work seems I'm forced to go
back to REDHAT 9.
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Hi there
OK I have a bit of info.
The scsi card is from Initio Corporation INIC 940P S/N 11323070585 And
the scsi card connects a HP DDS-4 tape drive If I do a...

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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]
/////////////////////////// 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 now ///////////////////////////

Any Assistance in this would be appreciated.
Regards
Marcus Van Wyk

PS* this is the last line in  /var/log/messages
Sep  6 11:04:50 fileserver kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
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