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Bug 146186

Summary: Ide-tape drives not available: missing ide-tape driver
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Joshua Giles <joshua_giles>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Joshua Giles 2005-01-25 20:26:16 UTC
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Description of problem:
kernel:2.6.9-5
Platform: All with IDE interface
Platform tested: PE600SC
BIOS: =A09
Tape drive: Travan40 (Seagate STT3401A)

OS detects the Tape drive which can be verified by viewing the
hwbrowser or  /etc/sysconfig/hwconf. But none of the device files :
/devhdb
/dev/ht0
/dev/nht0 
are created. 

mt -f /dev/hdb gives the following : /dev/hdb: No such file or directory


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.9-1.906

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL 4 pre-RC2 (2.6.9-5) with Travan40 Tape drive
2. View the hwbrowser, /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
3. Check the o/p of: 
     a) ls /dev/hdb
     b) mt -f /dev/hdb status 
    

Actual Results:  ide tape drives are not made available for use.

Expected Results:  Autodetection and loading of the ide-scsi or
(preferably) ide-tape driver so that the tape drive is ready for use.  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-01-25 20:27:44 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146185 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:08:03 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.