FC3 bare metal restore from tape on a Compaq DL380

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 16:53 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
> Group:
> 
> I'm trying to restore a backup (dump format) tape to a Compaq DL380 from FC3 
> rescue mode. The drives are configured in a hardware raid1 array. I don't 
> have any issues getting to the logical drive, in fact I've made all my 
> partitons for the restore but my dds4 tape drive is attached to the external 
> port of the array controller and is seen at boot as a normal SCSI device, yet 
> the st module doesn't load and of course without it I can't address /dev/st0 
> or /dev/nst0.  Is there another module that I have to load in order for st to 
> load and work?  I can't even manually get modprobe to load the st module.

I have a DL380 running Red Hat 9 and in order to be able to use a tape
drive with the array controller, I have to do:

for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*
do
echo "engage scsi" > $x
done

in rc.local

Worth a try.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>