SCSI Card + Tape Backup
I looked over the old posts and didn't find anything to my aid, so here goes. Ultimately I want to backup my system onto the tapedrive.
Equipment: Running Fedora Core 2 (2.6.5-1.358) SCSI: Kouwell Ultra Wide (KW-910UW) Tapedrive: Sony STD-9000/BM I dont know whether or not the SCSI is actually loading, if there is a driver issue, or if there is a problem with Linux and my tapedrive. Right now though I think the SCSI is being recognized but not loaded. On boot in BIOS, my SCSI recognizes my tapedrive. Quote:
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I do not see the SCSI controller module nor the tape module loading. Try the following commands:
modprobe initio modprobe st No fstab entry is required for the tape drive. You should also install the tape drive utilities mt. The tape drive should have a device id of /dev/st0. To check its status: mt -f /dev/st0 status |
Running /sbin/modprobe initio results in: "FATAL: Module initio not found."
Running /sbin/modprobe st gives no information. mt -f /dev/st0 status results in: "/dev/st0: No such device or address" and so does sg0. What should I do from here? Thanks. |
Maybe others can confirm if the initio module is still supported in the 2.6 kernels. Has anyone else been sucessfull with getting this controller to work with a 2.6 kernel?
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Rembrant, do you use the fedora shipped kernel or did you compile your own ? If you use the fedora shipped it should include the module. If you have compiled your own, perhaps you didn't include support for the controller. /etc/fstab ofcourse it doesn't mention the tape drive. It is not a bad thing. Can you post the "dmesg" output in order for us to see what drivers are loaded ? |
I installed Fedora 2 from the ISO images downloaded at the Fedora Project website.
Output of dmesg: Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile@bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffc0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000ffc0000 - 000000000fff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000fff8000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 255MB LOWMEM available. zapping low mappings. On node 0 totalpages: 65472 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 61376 pages, LIFO batch:14 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI disabled because your bios is from 2000 and too old You can enable it with acpi=force Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet mapped 4G/4G trampoline to ffff3000. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=02345000 soft=02344000 PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes) Detected 731.056 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Memory: 256276k/261888k available (1540k kernel code, 4912k reserved, 599k data, 144k init, 0k highmem) Calibrating delay loop... 1441.79 BogoMIPS Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed. Failure registering capabilities with the kernel selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f1ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub ACPI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries PCI: Invalid ACPI-PCI IRQ routing table PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/2440] at 0000:00:1f.0 apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1124363593.4294966606:0): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks Initializing Cryptographic API pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset, but could not find the secondary device. agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset. agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ICH2: chipset revision 1 ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 90648D3, ATA DISK drive Using cfq io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-252S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 12656448 sectors (6480 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=12556/16/63, UDMA(33) hdb: hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW CD-MRW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver hid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 184k freed md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed SELinux: Disabled at runtime. SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022db720(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0 [drm] Initialized r128 2.5.0 20030725 on minor 0 agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:02:00.0 into 1x mode USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 0000:00:1f.2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 3, io base 0000ef80 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com Adding 524152k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.13 <tigran@veritas.com> microcode: CPU0 updated from revision 0x10 to 0x14, date = 02062001 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] SCSI subsystem initialized inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:01:09.0 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 0000:01:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xcc00. Vers LK1.1.19 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2046 buckets, 16368 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:01:09.0 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 0000:01:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xcc00. Vers LK1.1.19 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:02:00.0 into 1x mode |
As michaelk mentioned you need two modules.
"initio" for the scsi controller (after which it will "see" the tape drive) and "st" for scsi tape support. At first, i didn't understand why "modprobe initio" doesn't work. So, i downloaded "kernel-2.6.5-1.358.i586.rpm" from fedora core 2 ftp repository and there is no initio module. You are right. I don't know why this happens. The only reason i can think of (since i haven't used fedora/redhat) is that they compile their kernel with "only code that compiles cleanly". the driver for initio is marked dirty, so it doesn't get compiled. It may have nothing to do with what i am saying. I don't know anything about fedora, but i just mention it because this is the first i can think of. |
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