Geoffrey Hunsicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Some further research found that during boot I am getting the message
> "kernel: Unable to get major 9 for SCSI tapes."
>
> Some hunting around in the Kernel sources revealed that this message is
> coming out of the module drivers/scsi/st.c when the "register_chrdev"
> function fails. The function "register_chrdev" is defined in fs/devices.c
> and only fails if either the major device number is greater than 128,
> clearly not the problem in this case, or if the major number is already
> allocated. I can find no indication that major device 9 is being used by
> any other device.
I had a similar problem to this. I think it went away when I upgraded
my kernel to 2.0.33. I also looked into the problem and the tape
device appeared to be being registered twice at different stages of
the system initialisation.
Simon
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