RH9 ES 3 & Dell Tapewriter 122T LTO autoloader

From: coin coin (coi_at_coin.fr)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:19:31 +0200

Hi ,

I ve got a DELL POWERVAULT 122T LTO autoloader and a compaq proliant server
with RedHat ES 3.
According to the official red hat wweb site , intallation of the DELL 122T
sould be easy,
but i dont find anywhere good drivers/rpm for the dell :/

At startup the dell scsi ID looks like ok , startup menu told me :
" Tape Drive(s) DETECTED
   SCSI PORT 1 : SCSI ID 5 "
My powervault tape ID is 5 so i think its good ....

But when i m check scsi file "cat /proc/scsi/scsi " the file is empty ,
nothing shows up :(
i have 2 disc in RAID 1 and it s weird i cant see it in the scsi file too .

How can i "up" this tape drive into my proliant ?
could it be a wrong version of linux driver ?

thanks in advance .

Gr..

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