Re: setup external scsi tape drive

From: migur (migurus_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: 12 Oct 2004 15:31:08 -0700

Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote in message news:<9VI9d.50$Ve3.0@fe39.usenetserver.com>...
> migur <migurus@yahoo.com> wrote:

... snip ...

> The really confusing part is where both dmesg and /proc/scsi/scsi
> completely fail to list your DAT drive in any way, as a device hanging
> off a SCSI chain. Note that you _should_ get that sort of information
> irrespective of driver support, as long as Linux has driver support for
> the particular host adapter in question. So: What SCSI host adapter is
> the HP connected to? Are your kernel's information reports (e.g., dmesg)
> acknowledging its existence?
>
> Maybe you're loading the driver required to support the SCSI chain your
> hard drives are on, but not the different driver required for a
> _second_ host adapter, to which your HP DAT drive is connected?
>
> That spastic behaviour from the ftape driver is annoying but a lesser
> concern, I think. If memory serves, you should be able to prevent it
> from loading by putting a line like this in /etc/modules.conf :
>
> alias ftape off

This is too much for me, I am not h/w man at all.
Would you post a pointer for me how to re-define tape devise?
I appreciate it,
Migurus.

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