Ultrium drives / drivers

[Rick Bowers]

At 1/23/2007 08:37 AM, you wrote:
>I have found a manual that tells you the steps to install & configure
>Ultrium drives on Linux.  I copy and paste part of it below.
>
>The part that worries me, are the 3 drivers (modules?) at the bottom. St
>is loaded, but the name of the third one confuses me - is this a mistake
>in the manual (that this should be for the IBM AIX platform), or must
>this driver actually be loaded on my SUSE platform ?

No, it is not AIX. It is AIC or, just as it states, the driver for an 
Adaptec SCSI controller. I would think you don't need it if you have 
no such controller in your system.

~Rick



>=================
>FROM THE MANUAL
>=================
>
>No changes are needed to support Ultrium on Linux platforms, however you
>should ensure that you have the relevant drivers loaded.
>
>To see the device drivers loaded currently, execute an lsmod command,
>this
>will give output like:
>
>Module Size Used by
>sgm 4376 1
>ide-scsi 7200 0
>lockd 30792 1
>sunrpc 53316 1
>st 24656 0
>ncr53c8xx 52096 1
>aic7xxx 136184 2
>Linux 19
>Linux
>
>
>The lines of interest here are:
>
>st
>This is the tape driver. Its presence in the output of the lsmod
>command shows that the tape driver is loaded.
>
>ncr53c8xx
>This is a SCSI chipset driver for the LSI Logic family of HBAs
>(amongst others).
>
>aix7xxx
>This is a SCSI chipset driver for the Adaptec 7xxx chipset
>family (such as Adaptec 29160LP).
>
>
>==================
>END MANUAL
>==================
>
>
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>
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