I don't know if anyone has been following my situation with unrecognized IDE Atapi tape drive, but I have finally gotten to the point where the drive and ide-scsi modules are correctly identified and loaded automatically at boot time as can be seen below in clips of my messages file. To briefly re-cap, when installing the tape drive on my system after e-smith 4.1.1 had already been installed, nothing was recognized or loaded correctly by e-smith. After much searching and testing these were my findings to get things working to this point:
*** One other note: I have a 3-ware 6400 raid controller in the system with 3 drives operating under RAID 5. I'm not sure if this matters since there is now essentially two SCSI adpters now in the system which may be confusing the system ***
1. Needed to add the following line to my /etc/lilo.conf file just after the "root=/dev/xxxx" line
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
*** No need to run lilo again on RH7 or e-smith to have this take effect ***
2. Added the following to the /etc/modules.conf file
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
3. Modified my /etc/rc.d/rc.local and the very end, after the last "fi" with the following:
# added this line to have the ide-scsi module loaded for the hornet
# tape drive at boot time
modprobe ide-scsi
Now all seems to be loaded and detected correctly but I still have a problem!
When I test the drive with "mt -f /dev/nst0 retension" or try any "flexbackup" commands I receive the following errors in the messages file:
Apr 5 09:30:03 hostname kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 5, s/g segs 16.
Apr 5 09:30:03 hostname kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Apr 5 09:30:24 hostname kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense key Illeg$
Apr 5 09:30:24 hostname kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code
Below is some clips of my messages file at the state of hardware awareness the system is at this point, any help will be greatly appreciated.
Glenn
Apr 5 08:35:27 kernel: raid5: measuring checksumming speed
Apr 5 08:35:27 kernel: raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
Apr 5 08:35:27 kernel: pII_mmx : 1338.072 MB/sec
Apr 5 08:35:27 kernel: p5_mmx : 1405.128 MB/sec
Apr 5 08:35:27 kernel: 8regs : 1033.272 MB/sec
Apr 5 08:35:27 kernel: 32regs : 578.739 MB/sec
Apr 5 08:35:27 kernel: using fastest function: p5_mmx (1405.128 MB/sec)
Apr 5 08:35:28 kernel: scsi0 : 3ware Storage Controller
Apr 5 08:35:28 kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Apr 5 08:35:28 kernel: Vendor: 3ware Model: 3w-xxxx Rev: 1.1
Apr 5 08:35:28 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Apr 5 08:35:28 kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Apr 5 08:35:28 kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 80037121 [39080 MB] [39.1 GB]
Apr 5 08:35:28 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 >
Apr 5 08:35:53 upsd[1043]: *** PowerChute PLUS Version 4.5.2.1 (glibc) Started ***
Apr 5 08:35:56 upsd: PowerChute Plus for UNIX, v4.5.2.1 (glibc): Copyright (c) 2000, American Power Convers$
Apr 5 08:35:57 kernel: hda: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Apr 5 08:35:57 kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10
Apr 5 08:35:57 kernel: hdb: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Apr 5 08:35:57 kernel: scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Apr 5 08:35:57 kernel: scsi : 2 hosts.
Apr 5 08:35:57 kernel: Vendor: Seagate Model: STT20000A Rev: 8A51
Apr 5 08:35:57 kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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