From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268538AbUHYG25 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:28:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268539AbUHYG25 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:28:57 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:50067 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268538AbUHYG2y (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:28:54 -0400 Message-ID: <412C315D.1000708@hovedpuden.dk> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:27:41 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?John_Damm_S=F8rensen?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: /dev/[*]st* does not work with EXBAYTE 8505 with 2.6 kernels Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have just upgraded from RH9 Linux 2.4 to FC2 Linux 2.6 and now my EXABYTE 8505 no longer works. If I try to access it with mt (using any device like nst0) I get no such device error message. Same thing with stinit. The tape drive is found during boot, as this snippet from dmesg shows: qla1280: QLA12160 found on PCI bus 1, dev 8 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 scsi(1): Reading NVRAM qla1280_isr(): index 1 asynchronous BUS_RESET qla1280_isr(): index 0 asynchronous BUS_RESET scsi(1:0): Resetting SCSI BUS scsi(1:1): Resetting SCSI BUS scsi1 : QLogic QLA12160 PCI to SCSI Host Adapter Firmware version: 10.04.32, Driver version 3.24.3 Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-85058SQANXR0 Rev: 0808 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi(1:0:4:0): Sync: period 50, offset 14 cat of /proc/scsi/scsi also shows the tape device: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: COMPAQ Model: ST34371W Rev: 0682 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39103LW Rev: 0002 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-85058SQANXR0 Rev: 0808 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 lsmod seems to contain the necessary driver modules as well: Module Size Used by st 30429 0 qlogicfas408 6473 0 parport_pc 21249 1 lp 9133 0 parport 35977 2 parport_pc,lp md5 3905 1 ipv6 217349 16 autofs4 20677 0 sunrpc 141861 1 iptable_filter 2369 0 ip_tables 13889 1 iptable_filter 3c59x 33385 0 dm_mod 47317 0 button 4825 0 battery 7117 0 asus_acpi 9177 0 ac 3533 0 ext3 96937 4 jbd 66521 1 ext3 qla1280 81997 0 sd_mod 17473 5 scsi_mod 105360 3 st,qla1280,sd_mod Any hints? Please don't tell me that the 8505 is no longer supported. Cheers John