Re: SCSI Tapes and devfs

["brett holcomb" <brettholcomb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it's an Initio A100u2w and the support is built into 
the kernel.
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:23:00 +0800
 "Marton Kadar" <marton.kadar@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You again phrase it in a way that gives me doubts.
>
> The SCSI _host_adapter_ support is ONE element in the 
> kernel.
> The SCSI _tape_ support is ANOTHER.
>
> These two, the host adapter and the tape drive, are also 
> two very distinct pieces of hardware in your box.
> You can have host adapter support without tape support. 
> Are you sure it is not the case?
> Marton
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 22:07:14 -0500
> To: devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: SCSI Tapes and devfs
>
> > I double checked - the SCSI adapter is built into the 
> > kernel so it's not
> > a question of the module not loading.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:27:32 +0300
> > Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >  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).
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Brett I. Holcomb
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