Fibre Tape drives seen, but /dev/st* not being created @ boot (RHEL AS4)

guyvert1 · 07-10-2008, 04:17 AM

Hiya,

Pretty new to RH, come from solaris

I've need to configure in some (ADIC iscalar 2000) fibre tape drives, it appears the OS can see the drives :

(/proc/scsi/scsi)

Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ADIC Model: Scalar i2000 Rev: 4462
Type: RAID ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: ADIC Model: Scalar i2000 Rev: 4462
Type: RAID ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
Vendor: ADIC Model: Scalar i2000 Rev: 4462
Type: RAID ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
Vendor: ADIC Model: Scalar i2000 Rev: 4462
Type: RAID ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ADIC Model: Scalar i2000 Rev: 4462
Type: RAID ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: ADIC Model: Scalar i2000 Rev: 4462
Type: RAID ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
Vendor: ADIC Model: Scalar i2000 Rev: 4462
Type: RAID ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
Vendor: ADIC Model: Scalar i2000 Rev: 4462
Type: RAID ANSI SCSI revision: 03

But I cannot seem to get /dev/st* populated.. I found the /dev/MAKEDEV st command can do this, but again, after reboot they don't stay !

Any guidance appreciated..

Ta
John

trickykid · 07-15-2008, 12:41 PM

I've had this issue before with fibre tape drives. I setup a custom script to run at bootup so it's recognized each time.