Re: SCSI Tapes and devfs

["brett holcomb" <brettholcomb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:27:32 +0300
 Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is the sole responsibility of corresponding driver. 
> If we speak about
> SCSI tape, this happens in driver attach method.
>
>  In the case
> > of st being a module and me loading it at startup time
> > causes devfs to see it.  But what SHOULD trigger this if
> > the st support is built into a kernel - what is the
> > mechanism there for Linux?
> The same modulo bugs. St's attach should run in exactly 
> the same fashion and
> register tape (if found). Are you sure you have not built 
> driver for your
> SCSI adapter as module? Then when st is initialized at 
> boot time it can't
> find any tapes because there is no adapter yet. This 
> would perfectly explain
> why tape was not there initially but appeared later (due 
> to module
> autoloading).
No, the adapter is built into the kernel - I verified 
that.
> -andrey