[lug] tar has me mired in it...

[Michael Wegener]

Well, "insmod st" tells me the module's already loaded, but "modprobe st" shows nothing
and it still tells me st0 doesn't exist (nor ht0, Jeff). When I look for it in
/proc/ksyms, "st.o" does show up, but it's the only one there.

--M

Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:24:32PM -0600, Michael Wegener wrote:
> >I am trying to do a "simple backup" using a Seagate DDS-3 DAT drive.
> >However, I cannot dump anything to any device that one would think would
> >be a tape (ftape, tape-d, st0, etc. errMsg: "Cannot open: no such
>
> Do you have the "st" driver loaded?  Try doing "modprobe st".  If you
> built your own kernel, you'll have to go back in and make sure you've
> got st enabled.
>
> You can tell if you have it in your kernel by looking at /proc/ksyms.  For
> example, the following shows a session where I don't have it loaded, I
> load it and then the symbols show up:
>
>    [root at backup /proc]# grep '\[st\]' /proc/ksyms
>    [root at backup /proc]# insmod st
>    Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/st.o
>    [root at backup /proc]# grep '\[st\]' /proc/ksyms
>    c48740c0 st_template    [st]
>    c48741f4 __insmod_st_S.bss_L40  [st]
>    c48732e0 __insmod_st_S.rodata_L3243     [st]
>    c486e054 __insmod_st_S.text_L20782      [st]
>    c486e000 __insmod_st_O/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/st.o_M39A2E918_V131600       [st]
>    c4874080 __insmod_st_S.data_L192        [st]
>    [root at backup /proc]#
>
> Sean
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