On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I backup my disk's data to tape in multiuser mode and then use the rescue disk
> to boot up and try to restore to another disk. I got error because it cannot
> access the tape through st0. "mt" and "tar" also doesn't work.
>
> It is a Qlogic 1040B SCSI interface with 4mm tape drive.
> The boot disk is created by "mkbootdisk" so during boot process, I can see it
> can recongize the Qlogic and tape drive. cat /proc/scsi/scsi can also see the
> tape device being recognized. st0 is a device with major,minor set to 9,0.
>
> Qlogic+4mmtape can be accessed in multiuser mode with no problem.
> The same does not apply when I boot with rescue disks.
>
> Any idea? Thanks
Does the kernel on the rescue disk have support for scsi tape drives compiled
in? Either that or load the modules yourself.
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