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

[Michael Wegener]

Sean and Jeff,

I may have discovered a clue -- it's the first time anyone has used the @*$#(* thing, and
the SCSI cable wan't fully plugged in. Ya think? Maybe?

It's finally come up for reboot, and it tars like a champ to st0.

Thanks for the help, and if you'll excuse me, I need to sulk over the lost hour or so...

--M

Michael Wegener wrote:

> 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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Michael Wegener
--------------------- wegener at zulaware.com
President
--------------------- (voice) 303-402-0364
Zulaware, Inc.
--------------------- (fax) 1-877-540-6114
5589 Arapahoe Ave
Suite 206A
Boulder, CO 80303