[TriLUG] SCSI Devices in "RedHat-like" environments

[Brian McCullough]

Hi, All.

This may be too late for some of you, but I'll see who is reading this
evening and weekend.


I have been running Debian and Debian-like distributions for some time
now, with probably a version 6.x or so being the last Red Hat that I was
familiar with.  I also have had TurboLinux in one of my machines, that
happens to have a SCSI card and tape drive.  

Recently, I upgraded the TurboLinux to a more RedHat-like system, 
with a 2.6.8 kernel.  All of a sudden, no more SCSI of any type!  Since
I don't have any real problems with compiling kernels, I got a "virgin"
2.6.10 source, made sure that SCSI, tape and my particular card were
included, and compiled.

OK, so far so good.  I reboot, and after the system has started, Kudzu
comes up and says that it has found my SCSI card.  I say fine, go ahead
and configure it, and things seem happy.  I reboot again, and dmesg
says, just as in the Turbo days, that it has found a SCSI card and Tape
Drive and it is being assigned to /dev/st0 !

However, and here is where the story gets a bit unhappy -- I don't seem
to be able to make use of that device in any way.  mt /dev/st0 rewind,
says something like "no such device", tar says the same thing, there is
nothing in /proc/scsi.   ????


Anybody have any bright ideas regarding the step that I have missed.  It
has been a Looooong time since I set up that tape drive, so I am very
willing to believe that there is something critical that I have missed.


Thanks,
Brian