Hi,
RH AS 3, HP Proliant DL380, 3 scsi controller 6400 and 5i for HD and one scsi for a DLT VS80 tape drive.

The problem:
The drive (tape) gets posted on boot, but I can not write/look/etc at the drive.
Command mt -f /dev/st0 status get this output message /dev/st0: No such device.
The driver install is from aic7xxx-6.3.2-rlhel3.i686.rpm. But I also get this error at the end of the install.
error: %post(aic7xxx-6.3.2-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

HP and RH said that hardware and software are compatible.
Is anybody using this same set-up? or solution to this problem?

Thanks,
Ralph

What does 'cat /proc/scs/scsi' have to say about your attached devices?

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: COMPAQ Model: CD-ROM SN-124 Rev: N104
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

OK - you installed an RPM module and something in the install script failed. Not a good start, but let's see what else we can learn here.

What does 'modprobe -l aic7*' return?
What scsi modules do you have available?Note that those are backticks around the uname statement, not single-quotes.

This are the two output:
What does 'modprobe -l aic7*' return?
[root]# modprobe -l aic7*
/lib/modules/2.4.21-9.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-9.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx
/lib/modules/2.4.21-9.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.o

What scsi modules do you have available?
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 16 11:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Sep 16 11:49 ..
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 46352 Jan 8 2004 3w-xxxx.o
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 16 11:49 aacraid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 17:26 aic7xxx
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 139672 Jan 8 2004 aic7xxx_old.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 6264 Jan 8 2004 ata_piix.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 110484 Jan 8 2004 BusLogic.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 37740 Jan 8 2004 dpt_i2o.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 63872 Jan 8 2004 gdth.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 16232 Jan 8 2004 ide-scsi.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 51860 Jan 8 2004 ips.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 35600 Jan 8 2004 libata.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 46792 Jan 8 2004 megaraid2.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 36952 Jan 8 2004 megaraid.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 87044 Jan 8 2004 qla1280.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 144588 Jan 8 2004 scsi_mod.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 19604 Jan 8 2004 sd_mod.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 47744 Jan 8 2004 sg.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 24188 Jan 8 2004 sr_mod.o
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 38836 Jan 8 2004 st.o
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 16 11:49 sym53c8xx_2
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 78500 Jan 8 2004 sym53c8xx.o
Thanks,
Ralph

Okay, now try 'modprobe aic7xxx'

cmd: modprobe aic7xxx
modprobe: Can't locate module aic7xxx

And with this cmd : modprobe -l aic7* (with lower letter l )
nothing

Ralph

Weird. but it appears to be in your mopdules path. What does 'uanme -a' return?

[root]# uname -a
Linux xxxx 2.4.21-9.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Jan 8 17:08:56 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

ahah.. thanks to finegan I think we know where to look.

Try 'depmod -a' and see if we get any errors.

mcleodnine,
The command (depmod -a) does not return anything
Ralph

Now try the afformentioned modprobe lines.

[root]# modprobe aic7xxx
modprobe: Can't locate module aic7xxx
[root]# modprobe -l aic7*
[root]#

Another thing, HP install Adaptec card AHA-39160,
but RH recomended Adaptec 29160 card!
Not sure if this is also the problem

There's a big difference - you need the module called 'aic79xx'. Looks like that's the wrong RPM module you got in the first place.

The driver aic79xx is for AHA-39160? this is the card that we have install. If this is the case I will download the new driver and post the outcome.
Thanks,
Ralph