Topic: Tape backup still fails

[Neil Hart]

Hello

There is a know bug detailed in e-smith.org/bugs, namely...

Tape backups fail, with the error
  dev/nst0: No such device or address

The workaround is to load the ide-scsi module, thus...
    #  modprobe ide-scsi

However, it still doesn't work (

This happened after an upgrade from 5.1.2 to 5.5.  The tape backup was working perfectly before.

Is anyone else still having trouble with this, or is there something I haven't done?

Regards

Neil

[Darrell May]

Assuming you have a scsi controller installed and an ide tbu, try this HowTo:

http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/scsi-hostadapter-howto.html

Darrell

[Neil Hart]

Thanks for the reply Darrell.

No, I don't have any SCSI controllers on-board.  The tape backup units are IDE.

This problem occurs with a new installation of SME 5.5, as well as an upgrade from 5.1.2.

The upgraded server's backups were working perfectly before the upgrade.  The new installation, used to use NT.

What else could I try?

Regards

Neil