tape installation

[Wolfgang Gill]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:48, Stefano wrote:
> Hello there.
> 
> I'm a Linux newbie, and I decided to start from Fedora. So I've installed
> FC1 and everything works fine.
> 
> Today I've added an adaptec AH2904 SCSI card with an attached external DEC
> TZ87 DLT tape drive.
> During the reboot the operating system told me that a new scsi controller
> was detected.
> 
> The scsi card and the tape drive seems to be installed correctly, but the
> tape drive doesn't work.
> When I try
> mt -f /dev/st0 status
> I get "No such device or address" error.
> 
> To make the tape work I need to issue a "modprobe aic7xxx" command manually.
> After that the tape works.
> When I reboot the machine the tape doesn't work anymore, and I need to issue
> the modprobe command again.
> 
> How can I make the tape working across reboots?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Stefano
> 
> 
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Add the modprobe aic7xxx to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
Then that driver will reload when you reboot your system. I had to do
that too for a driver to load on reboot on my system.

Wolf