scsi tape device support

[Geoff Rainey (DSLAK)]

You are correct, after I investigated further last night, it is a compaq
5i smart raid array controller. These use the cciss drivers right?
Some notes would be fabulous!

Regards,
Geoff.

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 01:55, Eric Sisler wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 20:55, geoff rainey wrote:
> 
> > I have a DL380 with an internal SCSI tape device, redhat 7.3,
> > kernel version is 2.4.21.
> > Kernel does not recognize the device correctly, thinks it
> > is DLT. This problem has just become evident
> > and the box has not been rebooted for 1 year.
> 
> I have a couple of DL380's with internal tape drives, they are HP/Compaq
> Dat 20/40i (DDS-4).  Is it plugged into the hot swap bay, and if so does
> the box have a hardware RAID card in it?  (Mine have SmartArray 5i's.) 
> If so, you'll need to do some tweaking to get the kernel to see the tape
> drive.  Let me know if this is the case and I'll locate my notes on the
> subject.
> 
> -Eric
> 
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