Ultrium drives / drivers

[Dirk Moolman]

>On Tuesday 23 January 2007 8:37 am, Dirk Moolman 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 ?
>>
>>
>> =================
>> 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
>> ==================
>>
>>
>> Disclaimer: http://196.33.167.70/disclaimer
>>



>From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
>On Behalf Of Tim Wunder
>Sent: 24 January 2007 01:57 PM
>
>
>Looks like a typo to me. That should probably be the "aic7xxx" driver.
># lsmod|grep aic
>aic7xxx               142577  0
>scsi_transport_spi     25537  1 aic7xxx
>scsi_mod              139341  6
>st,sr_mod,aacraid,aic7xxx,scsi_transport_spi,sd_mod
>
>HTH,
>Tim


You are 100%, it was a typo.    I finally managed to get access to my
tape drives.


Thanks     :-)



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