Tape AIT 35 lvd and RH 3 problem

[Daniel Ubeda]

Hi,

I have a AIT 35 LVD tape in a server, and Linux RH ES 3.0 and I can't see this tape.
I can see in a certification matrix, that no tape drive from HP is certified for RH 3
Any suggestion ???

thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

If its a scsi device, see that it doesn't have the same scsi id as the scsi card.

If thats not the case, try a different scsi cable.

SEP

[Daniel Ubeda]

Hello,

the scsi id is set as autoconfigure, and in this server DL380 G3 the tape drive is connected without cable, the socket is on board.

I need a rpm or some else to tell to RH that there are a drive here ....

[Stuart Browne]

The tape is connected without a cable?

Have you got a Hot-Plug drive in the RAID array ?

If so, you may need to tweak some of the kernel configuraion in order to get it to work (I've not tried RHES3 on a DL380).

There are a number of kernel compile-time options in order to allow a tape drive on the RAID 5i (or other cciss based) controllers.

Having a quick look at a RHES server here with an eratta kernel (2.4.21-9), the option 'CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE=y' is set, so it should just work.

Does it show up when the server boots in the SCSI post?