the command is for listing the modules that are loaded at boot time by the kernel.
At kernel compilation all the drivers can be compiled in the kernel, and/or many of the drivers can be loaded as modules.
Most of the kernel theses day's make use of the modules mecanism because it make the kernel smaller, and modules can be loaded/unloaded at demand.
Generaly when you need explainations on a command try
man 'command'
like
man lsmod
also usefull
info 'command'
like
info lsmod
for example the output of your lsmod tell us that your scsi card is loaded as a module (is not hardcoded in your kernel)
I see no trace of tape setup in there !
Are you sure that this tape is seen by the system at startup.
you can check this at bootup time, you usualy get a message from the scsi card after the bios boot and test, that say's something like press controle c to see scsi card setup
from within this setup you should be able to see if the scsi card see your tape drive on what number.
Please also tell us what is you tape drive model ?
the reason I am asking this is because normaly the system at boot up should have seen and started your tape as a module.
Perhaps is as a problem at startup, but we could load the module by hand with
insmod 'tape modele'
do a man insmod for info on this command.
Your questions seem to indicated you are new to linux/unix environments a read of the following documentation would help.
J-P
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