tape installation

[Stefano]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefano" <santellani at hotmail.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: tape installation


> 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
>


After upgrading the kernel to version 2.4.22-1.2129 the problem disappeared,
and the scsi driver is now correctly loaded after each reboot.

But... Why? There was a problem in the old kernel?