Sony AIT2 tape drive, modprobe st found nothing
John-Paul Stewart
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Here is what a different (Exabyte VXA-2) tape drive does on an Adaptec AIC-7902 dual Ultra-320 SCSI controller does on a machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES system (which does work):
$sbin-lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted parportpc 18884 1 (autoclean) lp 9156 0 (autoclean) parport 38848 1 (autoclean) parportpc lp sg 37388 0 (autoclean) vfat 13228 0 (autoclean) fat 39864 0 (autoclean) vfat floppy 57552 0 (autoclean) nlsiso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean) udf 99680 0 (autoclean) ide-cd 34016 0 (autoclean) cdrom 32896 0 (autoclean) ide-cd emu10k1 73344 0 (autoclean) sound 77036 0 (autoclean) emu10k1 ac97codec 17100 0 (autoclean) emu10k1 soundcore 7044 7 (autoclean) emu10k1 sound adm1021 7448 0 (unused) i2c-i801 5464 0 (unused) i2c-dev 5700 0 ipconntrackirc 4240 0 (unused) loop 12728 0 pppasync 9824 1 (autoclean) ipconntrackftp 5392 0 (unused) nfsd 86160 4 (autoclean) usbserial 23964 0 (autoclean) (unused) autofs4 168 plus 184 0 (autoclean) (unused) w83781d 22672 0 (unused) i2c-proc 9296 0 adm1021 w83781d i2c-core 19332 0 adm1021 i2c-i801 i2c-dev w83781d i2c-proc lockd 59600 1 (autoclean) nfsd sunrpc 89244 1 (autoclean) nfsd lockd e1000 77884 2 pppgeneric 27256 3 (autoclean) pppasync slhc 6776 1 (autoclean) pppgeneric iptablenat 22808 1 (autoclean) iptablemangle 2776 0 (autoclean) (unused) iptstate 1080 146 (autoclean) ipconntrack 29800 4 (autoclean) ipconntrackirc ipconntrackftp iptablenat iptstate iptREJECT 4632 4 (autoclean) iptLOG 4280 17 (autoclean) iptlimit 1656 18 (autoclean) iptablefilter 2412 1 (autoclean) iptables 16544 9 iptablenat iptablemangle iptstate iptREJECT iptLOG iptlimit iptablefilter st 31524 0 keybdev 2976 0 (unused) mousedev 5688 1 hid 22308 0 (unused) input 6176 0 keybdev mousedev hid usb-uhci 26860 0 (unused) usbcore 81152 0 usbserial hid usb-uhci ext3 89992 11 jbd 55092 11 ext3 aic79xx 188956 5 diskdumplib 5260 0 aic79xx sdmod 13936 10 scsimod 115240 4 sg st aic79xx sdmod
$ catproc-scsi-scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLASU32018WLS Rev: B120 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLASU32018WLS Rev: B120 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLASU32018WLS Rev: B120 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLASU32018WLS Rev: B120 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 11 Lun: 00 Vendor: EXABYTE Model: VXA-2 Rev: 2105 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 1.3.10-RH1 aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512 SCBs
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 1.3.10-RH1 aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512 SCBs
Mike Cox wrote (in part): I bought the cheaper versions of Red Hat Linux; i.e., not the professional...
Part ofvar-log-dmesg:
Mike Cox Really? Interesting. I have a completely different experience. When did they "discontinue support" in relation to when you bought it? I remember that M$ also discontinued support to...
blk: queue f7f10a18, I-O limit 524287Mb (mask 0x7fffffffff) (scsi0:A:0): 320.000MB-s transfers (160.000MHz DTIURTIQAS, 16bit) (scsi0:A:1): 320.000MB-s transfers (160.000MHz DTIURTIQAS, 16bit) (scsi0:A:2): 320.000MB-s transfers (160.000MHz DTIURTIQAS, 16bit) (scsi0:A:3): 320.000MB-s transfers (160.000MHz DTIURTIQAS, 16bit) (scsi1:A:11): 80.000MB-s transfers (40.000MHz, 16bit) Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLASU32018WLS Rev: B120 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 blk: queue f7f10818, I-O limit 524287Mb (mask 0x7fffffffff) Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLASU32018WLS Rev: B120 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 blk: queue f7f10418, I-O limit 524287Mb (mask 0x7fffffffff) Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLASU32018WLS Rev: B120 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 blk: queue f7f10618, I-O limit 524287Mb (mask 0x7fffffffff) Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLASU32018WLS Rev: B120 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 blk: queue f7f10218, I-O limit 524287Mb (mask 0x7fffffffff) scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 scsi0:A:2:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 scsi0:A:3:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 35916548 512-byte hdwr sectors (18389 MB) sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 SCSI device sdb: 35916548 512-byte hdwr sectors (18389 MB) sdb: sdb1 sdb2 SCSI device sdc: 35916548 512-byte hdwr sectors (18389 MB) sdc: sdc1 sdc2 SCSI device sdd: 35916548 512-byte hdwr sectors (18389 MB) sdd: sdd1 sdd2 blk: queue f7762018, I-O limit 524287Mb (mask 0x7fffffffff) Vendor: EXABYTE Model: VXA-2 Rev: 2105 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 blk: queue f7761e18, I-O limit 524287Mb (mask 0x7fffffffff) ... st: Version 20040102, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s-g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 11, lun 0
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