Bug 3923 – SCSI Tape not detected in i586 variant of 2.2.5-22

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Bug 3923 - SCSI Tape not detected in i586 variant of 2.2.5-22

Summary:	SCSI Tape not detected in i586 variant of 2.2.5-22

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Reported:	1999-07-06 18:24 EDT by john.a.limpert.1
Modified:	2008-08-01 12:22 EDT (History)
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Description john.a.limpert.1 1999-07-06 18:24:55 EDT

Upgraded from Red Hat 5.2 to Red Hat 6.0 with the kernel
from kernel-2.2.5-22.i586.rpm. The SCSI tape drive (Exabyte
8500 on Adaptec 2940) was no longer detected by the kernel
during boot. Switching to the kernel in
kernel-2.2.5-22.i386.rpm appears to have fixed the problem.
The i386 variant of the kernel detects the SCSI tape drive.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-07-08 10:45:59 EDT

that's odd. In both cases  the st driver is compiled into the
kernel. Exactly how does it fail - does the device not show
up in /proc/scsi/scsi?

Comment 2 john.a.limpert.1 1999-07-09 10:15:59 EDT

References to /dev/st0 produce the error "no such device" and the tape
drive does not appear in /proc/scsi/scsi. Other SCSI devices (hard
disk and CD-ROM) are detected properly. The SCSI tape driver _is_
listed in the link map for the kernel.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-07-09 14:07:59 EDT

Hm.

Out of curiousity, what happens if you try the i586 kernel
from Raw Hide
(ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/i386/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-*i586.rpm),
or compile your own i586 kernel from the same sources?

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