Re: SCSI Tapes and devfs

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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).


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Brett I. Holcomb