Topic: installing tape drive

[tariq]

Hi, I have SME 6.0 final and have just added an SIIG SCSI card with a compaq DDS3 SCSI tape drive.

The drive is succesfully recognised by the SCSI bios, and SME server boots as usual. What do I do to get SME to recognise and use this new tape drive?

I would be very grateful if someone could help me.

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[Nick Ramsay]

Inserting:

insmod st

at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local is one solution

[Charlie Brady]

tariq wrote:

> The drive is succesfully recognised by the SCSI bios, and SME
> server boots as usual. What do I do to get SME to recognise and
> use this new tape drive?

Determine what SCSI driver module you need, insert:

alias scsi_hostadapter xxxx

in /etc/modules.conf, and reboot.

You might have a stumbling block though - I don't know whether linux supports any SIIG SCSI adapters. Perhaps it's something else rebadged. You can probably find some hints as to the correct driver via google.

Charlie