Tape backup using tar

[Stuart Bailey]

> Yep. So can you show us the results of lsmod on a freshly
> booted system both before and after 'modprobe st'

This is from a freshly booted system, as you can see, st is already loaded, so 
there is no point modprobing it again.

# /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nfsd                  210625  9
exportfs               10177  1 nfsd
lockd                  64745  2 nfsd
parport_pc             30981  1
lp                     16713  0
parport                38793  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                22725  0
sunrpc                138629  19 nfsd,lockd
md5                     8001  1
ipv6                  262785  18
ipt_DSCP                6337  1
iptable_mangle          6721  1
ip_tables              25025  2 ipt_DSCP,iptable_mangle
st                     42593  0
video                  19653  0
button                 10577  0
battery                13253  0
ac                      8773  0
ohci_hcd               26081  0
ehci_hcd               37709  0
i2c_ali1563            10949  0
i2c_ali15x3            11461  0
i2c_core               25025  2 i2c_ali1563,i2c_ali15x3
snd_intel8x0           35585  0
snd_ac97_codec         77497  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            53745  0
snd_mixer_oss          21697  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                91845  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              28357  1 snd_pcm
snd                    58405  6 
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              13217  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         13765  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
dmfe                   25445  0
tulip                  54881  0
floppy                 62293  0
dm_mod                 59109  4
ext3                  131401  3
jbd                    61913  1 ext3
aic7xxx               161141  0
scsi_transport_spi     23105  1 aic7xxx
sd_mod                 22721  0
scsi_mod              135561  4 st,aic7xxx,scsi_transport_spi,sd_mod


Many thanks,

Stuart.
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