Re: HP StorageWorks DAT 72 SCSI Tape Drive

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/22/05

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    Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:08:24 -0500

    ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.hardware.]
    On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:02:19 -0400, John-Paul Stewart staggered into the
    Black Sun and said:
    > yasaswi wrote:
    >> When I do /sbin/lsmod I don't see st.o module. Where would I get
    >> that st.o module?
    > It's almost certainly included with the distro. Just load it with
    > 'modprobe st' (as root).

    That shouldn't be necessary if the distro had everything set up sanely
    by default. Usually, there's a line like so in /etc/modules.conf :

    alias char-major-9 st

    ...so every time anything tries to open() a character device with major
    number 9, the kernel module loader checks to see if st is loaded. If it
    isn't, st gets modprobed. This means that st will be loaded
    automagically if you do "tar cf /dev/st0 /path/to/stuff" or "mt status
    -f /dev/st0" or anything at all with /dev/st* or /dev/nst* . HTH, 

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