Re: Exabyte EXB-10 tape changer

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de)
Sat, 24 Jul 1999 23:53:48 +0200


In lists.linux.kernel, you wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Philip Blundell wrote:
>
> > > > open("/dev/sch0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)
>
> I didn't :) The driver is loaded, lsmod shows it, but no sign of scsi
> changer in /proc/devices.

It registers only if it finds a changer device. Is your tape library
listed in /proc/scsi/scsi?

> It's all OK that it isn't working since from
> the source it seems that the driver is written for 2.0 and early 2.1
> kernels. Is it hard to port this kind of module to 2.2? (with a bit of
> C knowledge, but without any idea on kernel internals).

If it compiles on 2.2.x, everything is fine. If it does'nt, get the
latest version from http://www.in-berlin.de/user/kraxel/linux.html

Gerd

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