Using IDE Tape Drives on SME
SCSI tape drives are generally recognized automatically by Linux and the 'st' kernel module automatically loads.
IDE tape drives require the sg module to be loaded. Older versions of Linux also required the ide-scsi module. Newer Linux versions appear to use the ide_scsi module instead.
Check that these modules are loading if you experience a problem with Linux recognizing an IDE tape drive using:
lsmod|more
This may not be the best way to force the loading of the sg module, but you can add this to /etc/rc.local:
# Load IDE tape drivers
/sbin/rmmod st > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/modprobe sg > /dev/null 2>&1
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