Hi Andrew. Janitorial patch adding device-major aliases in drivers/scsi, allowing kmod autoload: MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR(SCSI_CHANGER_MAJOR) MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR(OSST_MAJOR) MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR(SCSI_TAPE_MAJOR) MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV_MAJOR(SCSI_CDROM_MAJOR) MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV_MAJOR(SCSI_DISKN_MAJOR) Submitted the SCSI_TAPE_MAJOR before to the driver author, but never got a reply: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110589612809217&w=2 Rene.