Blade Center with RHEL 5 - Tape drive not detected

[Allen Chen]

Ramakrishnan Seshadhri wrote:
> hi
>
> I did modprobe sg but noting was upfate in /var/log/messages.
>
> Ra,
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Allen Chen
> <achen at harbourfrontcentre.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> Ramakrishnan Seshadhri 写道:
>>
>> Hi,
>>     
>>> We have a IBM blade center server with 4 setver outof which 3 are on RHEL
>>> 5
>>> and one is on Windows 2003 sever.
>>> The chasis has an integrated tape drive which is detected by only the
>>> windows server and not RHEL servers.
>>> Do we need to install any special drivers so that Tape drives can be
>>> detected by RHEL servers when I boot it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ramakrishnan.S
>>>
>>>
>>>       
After you load sg, try
# dmesg | grep st
It should show you the device name like st0. and it should be in the 
folder /dev

Allen