[ale] KDAT help needed for SCSI tape

[Jeff Hubbs]

Jim -

You need to have the module for SCSI tape in place or you ned to have it
compiled into the kernel.

If you look at the Gentoo Linux installation docs (www.gentoo.org) there
is a part there about firing up SCSI tape and CD-ROM.

- Jeff

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 23:13, Jim Seymour wrote:
> I seem to be missing something trying to get by tape drive working under
> RH 7.2.  The only thing I have in my modules.conf referring to my scsi
> adapter is:
> 
> alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
> 
> I have tried various ways to access the tape drive and I always get a
> tape not loaded message and no drive action at all.  I have not been
> able to find what I need by rtfm.  The drive is a Seagate 8 gig
> connected to a Adaptec 2940uw.  BTW it works flawlessly under OS/2 so I
> am fairly sure it is not a hardware issue.  At one time under a RH 6.x
> version the tape drive did work.  Please help as I am getting a little
> nervous about not being able to backup.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim Seymour
> 
> 
> 
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