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Re: SCSI tape drive problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Teri Seeley)
Sat Feb 14 05:12:02 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 01:18:06 -0500
From: Teri Seeley <twseeley@erols.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
C.J. Oster wrote:
>
> You don't have the scsi tape support compiled into your kernel. Try cat
> /proc/devices, you should see an entry, "9 st". Major 9, scsi-tape is what
> that means.
>
Here is the output I get when I cat /proc/devices:
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyp
5 cua
7 vcs
9 st
10 misc
Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
3 ide0
9 md
The entry for SCSI tape appears to be in the device list. I
checked /usr/src/linux/.config and found this entry:
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
which I think is the DEFINE for including st.o in the kernel.
Just to be sure I renamed st.o and did a make boot. st.o
compiled, but when I booted with the new kernel I still got the
same message:
"Unable to get major 9"
Is there some other thing I'm missing when configuring the kernel,
or is there some configuring I need to do after it's loaded?
Thanks,
Bill
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