Subject: Re: scsi tape drive.
From: Matthew Schumacher (schu@schu.net)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 12:07:28 AKST
The distro is redhat 6.1, I didn't have time to upgrade the machine so I
built a 2.4.10 kernel on it. The kernel works fine and I can see all of
the drives so I don't think that is the problem. The main reason for
upgrading is to get iptables on the machine. I HATE ipchains, it is one
of the lamest firewalls I have ever used.
Originally when I installed redhat 6.1 I had to jump though a lot of
hoops to make it work. I don't remember the details but I think I built
a custom patched kernel, booted the redhat installer, installed, copied
the kernel to the disk, ran lilo and reboot.
I guess I could have just used a different distro, but I stick with
redhat because I don't have time to learn all of the idiosyncrasies of
all the distributions. I know redhat well enough that I can work around
anything that it lacks or I don't like about it.
I didn't spec out the hardware and I don't care for ICP cards. I prefer
DPT cards in clone servers, but anymore it doesn't make sense to build
your own when you can get 1U dell boxes that work really well for under $3k.
later,
schu
Mike Tibor wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
>
>
>>I don't know what is wrong with this, so I figured I'd ask before I
>>spend some more time on it.
>>
>>I got a machine with a 2.4.10 kernel on it and I am trying access the
>>scsi tape drive, but I get the error "/dev/st0: Device not configured".
>>
>>Anyway, here is some information about the setup:
>>
>>dmesg:
>>
>>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
>>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
>>Configuring GDT-PCI HA at 0/12 IRQ 11
>>scsi0 : GDT6518RD
>> Vendor: ICP Model: Host Drive #00 Rev:
>> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 735B
>> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1001
>> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>>
>
> You might try putting the tape and cdrom drives on their own controller.
> When I was doing research on how to install Red Hat on a raid 5 array
> using an ICP Vortex controller, I saw something about the install
> failing when the cdrom was connected to the ICP Vortex card. I think this
> was somewhere in the Red Hat 7.1 install docs.
>
> Just out of curiousity, what distro is your system running, and were you
> able to install directly onto the array, or did you have to do some
> gymnastics to get the system onto the array?
>
> MIke
>
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