Tape drive on HP Smart Array 6i HBA

[Allen, Jack]

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From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 8:36 PM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: Tape drive on HP Smart Array 6i HBA


Allen, Jack wrote:
>         I have loaded AS 4 on an HP system with a Smart Array 6i HBA. 
> There is a 4mm tape drive connected to one of the channels. It shows up 
> during boot as the HBA is identified as LUN 5. But when Linux comes up 
> it does not see it therefore no /dev/st0 file is created. There are 5 
> disk on the system configured as a single logical disk via the HBA. The 
> disk shows up as /dev/cciss/c0d0 and then /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 through 
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p11 per the way the disk was partitioned at installation 
> time.
> 
>         So is there another drive that needs to be loaded?

Under udev on the 2.6 kernel, take a look at /dev/tape* instead of /dev/st*.
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Nothing there. I loaded AS 4 on an IBM system, it had different HBAs, but it
created /dev/st0 and /dev/st1 because there were 2 tape drives.

Jack Allen