OK, I've a number of problems with my scsi tape drive, but let's address them one at a time.
The first one is how to get the aic7xxx driver loaded when I boot. I'm running Slack 10.1 with the 2.6.10 stuff from /testing/. Poking around on the web, I thought all I needed was the following in /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
But, alas, this does not load the module. So, how do I get the module loaded whenever I boot.
Cheers,
Eddie