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

[Dax Kelson <dax gurulabs com>]

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 14:57 -0400, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> 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.

Cool, I hadn't noticed.

> > 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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131801

Dax