Problems with HP Ultrium 230e

[Vinesh Dhevcharran_1]

Hi,

We are experiencing problems with the hp ultrium 230e. We are using an Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter. We are running RH 7.3 on and IBM machine.

The tape drive "disappears" from the OS every now and then. This requires a "rmmod st" and an "insmod st" or a reboot to get the tape drive back.

The linuxtapecert.org also confirms that the above tape and scsi card is problematic. Does anyone have a solution for this

[Steven E. Protter]

1) Try a SCSI card recommended by HP.

This is a very reliable and useful tape drive when installed exactly according to HP's guidelines.

SEP

[Bill Douglass]

linuxtapecert also recommends that you upgrade your kernel. The latest RH7.3 kernel is 2.4.18-27.7.x.

There are also two versions of the aic7xxx SCSI driver. Do a lsmod to see which one your are running (should be aic7xxx, not aic7xxx.old).

[Bill Douglass]

My mistake - the latest RH7.3 kernel is 2.4.20-13.7.