Hi all

I am quite new to Linux, sorry if the terminology is incorrect.I am trying to make Linux work with my tape library but I got in all sort of problems.

I am running RHEL4 in vmware. Once I have finished the installation the st resource is present in cat/ proc/devices . I have then installed the backup software and its probing binary finds the library fine and I can configure it. After this I have also installed vmware tools (not sure if this would be te problem) and the tape library still there and configurable. Proceded to shut down and restart the machine (not required, but I am used to windows.. lol)

And found that once rebooted I cannot configure or see the device anymore the cat/ proc/devices does no no longer display the vital st attribute.

At this point I have run gconfig and modified the scsi support to Y for tape devices and general scsi support. Saved, rebooted no change. I went in gconfig again to see whether I had not saved the config, but I did.

Also, if I go to the hardware browser I can see my device and under Device information, Device it says /dev/st0 . But if I look into dev there is not st* device.

Please help, I am going mad.

go to /dev directory and type

MAKEDEV st

[as root user]

- zulfi

Hi there

Did not try that one, but I got the thing working. Apparentely the issue was caused by the ethernet card not working properly (mac address error). Once I fixed that everything was working. I never bothered to fix that earlier because I thought it was totally inrelevant. Well, there you go.

I assume this is because the backup application I use, uses the eth card to send RPCs (only a know-little guess!) so having that not working upset everything else.

Thank you for your help.