Hi Linux Gurus,

This is starting to peeve me.

I have Redhat 7.3 running on a Athlon 1000 system. So far everything Linux wise has worked well once I stuffed around with it long enough. I was almost ready to cut MS loose!...

Then I added a Adaptec aic7xxx SCSI Card (PCI) and onto it a Sony SDT-9000 Tape Unit, which I thought would be fairly straight forward, as everything I've found on the net so far says that my machine will detect the new hardware on next reboot and away I will go. Well, that is not the case.

The machine has detected it sure, here is what I get from dmesg:

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TDK Model: CDRW161040X Rev: 5.30
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
hdd: DMA disabled
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.5
<Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20/30C SCSI adapter>
aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs

Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-9000 Rev: 0400
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi : 1 host left.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
PCI: Enabling device 00:0b.0 (0006 -> 0007)
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.5
<Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20/30C SCSI adapter>
aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs

Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-9000 Rev: 0400
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi : 1 host left.

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There is a CDRW (which was already there) on scsi0, and scsi1 gets mentioned twice with the SDT-9000? Any way, then when I try mt -f /dev/st0 status: I get:

/dev/st0: No such device

However, when i try mt -f /dev/st status: I get:
/dev/st: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Can anyone help me with this? It seems to know the tape drive is there, but have I missed something? Are the devices right? Is there a driver I'm supposed to install?

Where do I start with this problem? Help much appreciated.

ghoppy.