FC4 - HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive problems

markusmac · 02-25-2006, 04:58 PM

Hi All,

I've recently upgraded to FC4 and now my tape drive doesn't seem to work, it used to work fine in earlier versions of Fedora.

The tape drive is:

HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive

And used to be mounted on st0. But when I try to use 'mt' I get the following message:

[root@linux ~]# mt -f /dev/st0 status
/dev/st0: No such file or directory

'lsmod' shows the following:

[root@linux ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
st 40417 0
scsi_mod 135529 1 st

But 'modprobe st' does absolutely nothing!

markusmac · 02-26-2006, 09:50 AM

Sorted this with the following command:

modprobe ide-scsi

But, I have to do this every time I boot.

Does anyone know how to do this automatically?

Many Thanks,

markusmac