Re: U3 kernel breaks tape library access with "mtx" via /dev/sg*

["nathan r. hruby" <nhruby uga edu>]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Dax Kelson wrote:

> For whatever reason (oversight during overzealous package removal?) it
> was not included in RHEL3.

you asked this a while ago and someone mentiuoned that it was an acident
and put back in update 1.  if you 'up2date -i mtx' it be there.

> On my fully paid-up subscribed RHEL3 box, I fixed this by recompiling
> the mtx SRPM from Fedora.
>
> This has worked great until I upgraded to the U3 kernel (2.4.21-20.EL).
> Now I can no longer use the mtx command.
>
> # mtx -f /dev/sg3 status
> cannot open SCSI device '/dev/sg3' - No such device or address

Hmm.. dunno.

-n
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